— Massive data analysis on large clusters presents new opportunities and challenges for query optimization. Data partitioning is crucial to performance in this environment. Howev...
Abstract. The current state of the art regarding scalable reasoning consists of programs that run on a single machine. When the amount of data is too large, or the logic is too com...
: Large scientific applications which rely on highly parallel computational analysis require highly parallel data access. We describe an object-oriented, scientific database system...
John L. Pfaltz, Russell F. Haddleton, James C. Fre...
One of the main advantages of using a scientific workflow management system (SWfMS) to orchestrate data flows among scientific activities is to control and register the whole work...
Eduardo S. Ogasawara, Daniel de Oliveira, Fernando...
Abstract. A time-lock puzzle is a mechanism for sending messages “to the future”. The sender publishes a puzzle whose solution is the message to be sent, thus hiding it until e...