Text mining, though still a nascent industry, has been growing quickly along with the awareness of the importance of unstructured data in business analytics, customer retention an...
The need to improve a suboptimal execution plan picked by the query optimizer for a repeatedly run SQL query arises routinely. Complex expressions, skewed or correlated data, and ...
How fast is the network? The speed at which real users can download content at different locations and at different times is an important metric for service providers. Knowledge o...
Alexandre Gerber, Jeffrey Pang, Oliver Spatscheck,...
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Viktoria Felmetsger, Ludovico Cavedon, Christopher...
HYDRAstor is a scalable, secondary storage solution aimed at the enterprise market. The system consists of a back-end architectured as a grid of storage nodes built around a distr...