The desktop metaphor aimed to create a working environment, which would resemble that of the user's desk. With information abundance this desktop is often cluttered with file...
George Lepouras, Aggelos Papatriantafyllou, Akrivi...
Although monadic second-order logic (MSO) has been a foundation of XML queries, little work has attempted to take MSO formulae themselves as a programming construct. Indeed, MSO f...
GPUs have recently evolved into very fast parallel co-processors capable of executing general purpose computations extremely efficiently. At the same time, multi-core CPUs evolutio...
George Teodoro, Rafael Sachetto Oliveira, Olcay Se...
In this paper we explore database segmentation in the context of a column-store DBMS targeted at a scientific database. We present a novel hardware- and scheme-oblivious segmentati...
Urban sensing, participatory sensing, and user activity recognition can provide rich contextual information for mobile applications such as social networking and location-based se...
Yi Wang, Jialiu Lin, Murali Annavaram, Quinn Jacob...