— Uncertain data is quite common nowadays in a variety of modern database applications. At the same time, the join operation is one of the most important but expensive operations...
One of the main problems that modern e-mail systems face is the management of the high degree of spam or junk mail they recieve. Those systems are expected to be able to distinguis...
Energy has become a scarce and expensive resource. There is a growing awareness in society that energy saving is a critical issue. This paper surveys algorithmic solutions to reduc...
The information we encounter in modern life, in developed countries, is a hybrid of the physical and the digital. Personal archiving tools allow users to capture and retrieve aspe...
Although processors become massively multicore and therefore new programming models mix message passing and multi-threading, the effects of threads on communication libraries rema...