The Web has been rapidly "deepened" by myriad searchable databases online, where data are hidden behind query interfaces. As an essential task toward integrating these m...
In this paper we extend the study of flow-energy scheduling to a model that allows both sleep management and speed scaling. Our main result is a sleep management algorithm called I...
Tak Wah Lam, Lap-Kei Lee, Hing-Fung Ting, Isaac Ka...
In many applications involving continuous data streams, data arrival is bursty and data rate fluctuates over time. Systems that seek to give rapid or realtime query responses in su...
Brian Babcock, Shivnath Babu, Mayur Datar, Rajeev ...
Supporting ranking queries in database systems has been a popular research topic recently. However, there is a lack of study on supporting ranking queries in data warehouses where...
Utility computing delivers compute and storage resources to applications as an `on-demand utility', much like electricity, from a distributed collection of computing resource...