This paper addresses the efficient processing of top-k queries in wide-area distributed data repositories where the index lists for the attribute values (or text terms) of a query...
Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafillou, Gerhard Wei...
Power and resource management are key goals for the success of modern battery-supplied multimedia devices. This kind of devices are usually based on SoCs with a wide range of subsy...
Patrick Bellasi, William Fornaciari, David Siorpae...
—Different physical impairments can occur in optical transmission systems. Impairments such as fiber nonlinear effects are dependent on network state and vary with traffic and to...
Wenhao Lin, Timothy Hahn, Richard S. Wolff, Brenda...
Distributed database design is a complex process that involves a set of distinct aspects for the accomplishment of an adequate data distribution (Buretta 1997). Many of these aspec...
—Cloud computing has emerged as a new technology that provides large amount of computing and data storage capacity to its users with a promise of increased scalability, high avai...
Nezih Yigitbasi, Alexandru Iosup, Dick H. J. Epema...