Bioinformatics applications are one of the most relevant and compute-demanding applications today. While normally these applications are executed on clusters or dedicated parallel ...
Maria Charalambous, Pedro Trancoso, Alexandros Sta...
Proximity searching consists in retrieving from a database, objects that are close to a query. For this type of searching problem, the most general model is the metric space, where...
Multi-join queries are the core of any integration service that integrates data from multiple distributed data sources. Due to the large number of data sources and possibly high v...
Computer system sizing involves estimating the amount of hardware resources needed to support a new workload not yet deployed in a production environment. In order to determine th...
Ted J. Wasserman, Patrick Martin, David B. Skillic...
Recent advances in processing and networking capabilities of computers have led to an accumulation of immense amounts of multimedia data such as images. One of the largest reposit...