The ability of fast similarity search at large scale is of great importance to many Information Retrieval (IR) applications. A promising way to accelerate similarity search is sem...
Given a set P of products, a set O of customers, and a product p P, a bichromatic reverse skyline query retrieves all the customers in O that do not find any other product in P t...
Xiaobing Wu, Yufei Tao, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Lin...
Due to the increasing security threats on the Internet, new overlay network architectures have been proposed to secure privileged services. In these architectures, the application...
The effective use of processor caches is crucial to the performance of applications. It has been shown that cache misses are not evenly distributed throughout a program. In applic...
Thermal effects are becoming increasingly important during integrated circuit design. Thermal characteristics influence reliability, power consumption, cooling costs, and performan...