Abstract Bloom filters are extensively used in distributed applications, especially in distributed databases and distributed information systems, to reduce network requirements and...
Odysseas Papapetrou, Wolf Siberski, Wolfgang Nejdl
Partitioning is an important step in several database algorithms, including sorting, aggregation, and joins. Partitioning is also fundamental for dividing work into equal-sized (o...
Mini-Bucket Elimination (MBE) is a well-known approximation algorithm deriving lower and upper bounds on quantities of interest over graphical models. It relies on a procedure tha...
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...
Suppose there are n applications and n processors. A pair cover is a set S of one-to-one mappings (assignments) of the applications to the processors such that, for every pair (Ai...
Wolfgang W. Bein, Shahram Latifi, Linda Morales, I...