To improve data availability and resilience MapReduce frameworks use file systems that replicate data uniformly. However, analysis of job logs from a large production cluster show...
NoSQL databases focus on analytical processing of large scale datasets, offering increased scalability over commodity hardware. One of their strongest features is elasticity, whi...
Ioannis Konstantinou, Evangelos Angelou, Christina...
— The BitTorrent (BT) file sharing protocol is popular due to its scalability property and the incentive mechanism to reduce free-riding. However, in designing such P2P file sh...
"From an applications viewpoint, the main reason to study the subject of these notes is to help deal with the complexity of describing random, time-varying functions. A random...
When comparing different methods for face detection or localization, one realizes that just simply comparing the reported results is misleading as, even if the results are reporte...