Abstract. In software transactional memory (STM) systems, a contention manager resolves conflicts among transactions accessing the same memory locations. Whereas atomicity and ser...
: As cloud services grow to span more and more globally distributed datacenters, there is an increasingly urgent need for automated mechanisms to place application data across thes...
Sharad Agarwal, John Dunagan, Navendu Jain, Stefan...
Abstract. Estimating the sizes of query results, and intermediate results, is crucial to many aspects of query processing. In particular, it is necessary for effective query optimi...
Monitoring movement of high-dimensional points is essential for environmental databases, geospatial applications, and biodiversity informatics as it reveals crucial information ab...
Michalis Potamias, Kostas Patroumpas, Timos K. Sel...
Markov logic networks (MLNs) use firstorder formulas to define features of Markov networks. Current MLN structure learners can only learn short clauses (4-5 literals) due to extre...