Indatawarehousingapplications,numerousOLAP queries involve the processing of holistic aggregators such as computing the "top n," median, quantiles, etc. In this paper, we...
Telecommunication networks process verylarge numbers of events in real time. In this environment, database applications demand both high throughput (at reasonable costs), and pred...
Jerry Baulier, Stephen Blott, Henry F. Korth, Abra...
MapReduce is a popular framework for data-intensive distributed computing of batch jobs. To simplify fault tolerance, the output of each MapReduce task and job is materialized to ...
Tyson Condie, Neil Conway, Peter Alvaro, Joseph M....
In multicast communication, a source transmits the same content to a set of receivers. Current protocols for multicast follow a tree communication model which makes them scalable....
Smart environments and wearables will make the storage and subsequent sharing of digitized multimedia diaries and meeting protocols – whom we meet, or what we say or do – chea...