It is well-known that the time and memory necessary to create a codebook from large training databases have hindered the vector quantization based systems for real applications. T...
Paulo Sergio Lopes de Souza, Alceu de Souza Britto...
Most fault-tolerant systems are designed to stop faulty programs before they write permanent data or communicate with other processes. This property (halt-on-failure) forms the co...
Flash memories are considered a competitive alternative to rotating disks as non-volatile data storage for database management systems. However, even if the Flash Translation Layer...
The object identifier index of an object-oriented database system is typically 20% of the size of the database itself, and for large databases, only a small part of the index fits...
Traditional DMA requires the operating system to perform many tasks to initiate a transfer, with overhead on the order of hundreds or thousands of CPU instructions. This paper des...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward W. F...