Top-k queries are widely applied for retrieving a ranked set of the k most interesting objects based on the individual user preferences. As an example, in online marketplaces, cus...
We present Schism, a novel workload-aware approach for database partitioning and replication designed to improve scalability of sharednothing distributed databases. Because distri...
Carlo Curino, Yang Zhang, Evan P. C. Jones, Samuel...
The ever-increasing number of intrusions in public and commercial networks has created the need for high-speed archival solutions that continuously store streaming network data to...
Francesco Fusco, Marc Ph. Stoecklin, Michail Vlach...
In several Java VMs, strings consist of two separate objects: metadata such as the string length are stored in the actual string object, while the string characters are stored in ...
Abstract. We propose a randomized method for general convex optimization problems; namely, the minimization of a linear function over a convex body. The idea is to generate N rando...
Fabrizio Dabbene, P. S. Shcherbakov, Boris T. Poly...