This paper is concerned with the efficient execution of multiple query workloads on a cluster of SMPs. We target applications that access and manipulate large scientific dataset...
We describe a load-balancing mechanism for assigning elements to servers in a distributed data structure that supports range queries. The mechanism ensures both load-balancing wit...
James Aspnes, Jonathan Kirsch, Arvind Krishnamurth...
Scientific data of importance to biologists in the Humitn Genome Project resides not only in conventional da.tabases, but in structured files maintained in a number of different f...
Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Kyle Hart, G. Ch...
In this paper, we present ideas how visualization technology can be used to improve the difficult process of querying very large databases. With our VisDB system, we try to provid...
: Information retrieval tries to identify relevant documents for an information need. The problems that an IR system should deal with include document indexing (which tries to extr...