We present an automatic skew mitigation approach for userdefined MapReduce programs and present SkewTune, a system that implements this approach as a drop-in replacement for an e...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Je...
Intuitively, aggressive work sharing among concurrent queries in a database system should always improve performance by eliminating redundant computation or data accesses. We show...
Ryan Johnson, Nikos Hardavellas, Ippokratis Pandis...
When a person passes by a surveillance camera a sequence of image is obtained. Before performing any analysis on the face of a person, the face first needs to be detected and secon...
This paper proposes methodologies to control the access of B-tree-indexed data in a batch and real-time fashion. Algorithms are proposed to insert, query, delete, and rebalance B-...
This paper details the behavioral evaluation of a qualitative image categorisation and retrieval approach using semantic features of images. Content based image retrieval and class...