As an efficient distribution mechanism, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology has become a tremendously attractive solution to offload servers in large-scale video streaming applications. ...
An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
Main memory latencies have always been a concern for system performance. Given that reads are on the critical path for CPU progress, reads must be prioritized over writes. However...
Programming distributed and reactive asynchronous systems is complex due to the lack of synchronization between concurrently executing tasks, and arbitrary delay of message-based c...
The Aurora system [1] is an experimental data stream management system with a fully functional prototype. It includes both a graphical development environment, and a runtime syste...