Distributed and parallel computing environments are becoming cheap and commonplace. The availability of large numbers of CPU's makes it possible to process more data at highe...
Abstract. Several alternatives to manage large XML document collections exist, ranging from file systems over relational or other database systems to specifically tailored XML base...
Thorsten Fiebig, Sven Helmer, Carl-Christian Kanne...
Estimating the cardinality (i.e. number of distinct elements) of an arbitrary set expression defined over multiple distributed streams is one of the most fundamental queries of in...
In this paper, we examine the benefits of split-TCP proxies, deployed in an operational world-wide network, for accelerating cloud services. We consider a fraction of a network co...
Abhinav Pathak, Angela Wang, Cheng Huang, Albert G...
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...