Big data is the tar sands of the data world: vast reserves of raw gritty data whose valuable information content can only be extracted at great cost. MapReduce is a popular parall...
There is a rapidly growing set of applications, referred to as data driven applications, in which analysis of large amounts of data drives the next steps taken by the scientist, e...
Nowadays, if we want to obtain a sound and correct final software product it is very important to be able to properly join modern OO programming environments, which are built for ...
Integrity constraints are valuable tools for enforcing consistency of data in a database. Global integrity constraints ensure integrity and consistency of data spanning multiple d...
In this paper we propose a parallel approach for the Kmeans Vector Quantization (VQ) algorithm used in a twostage Hidden Markov Model (HMM)-based system for recognizing handwritte...
Alceu de Souza Britto Jr., Paulo Sergio Lopes de S...