— One of the bottlenecks in the recent movement of hardware synthesis from behavioral C programs is the difficulty in reasoning about runtime pointer values at compile time. The...
Pushdown systems are well understood as abstract models of programs with (recursive) procedures. Reps et al. recently extended pushdown systems into weighted pushdown systems, whi...
Detecting clusters or communities in large real-world graphs such as large social or information networks is a problem of considerable interest. In practice, one typically chooses...
Implementations of map-reduce are being used to perform many operations on very large data. We examine strategies for joining several relations in the map-reduce environment. Our ...
Abstract— It is widely realized that the integration of information retrieval (IR) and database (DB) techniques provides users with a broad range of high quality services. A new ...