One common characterization of how simple hill-climbing optimization methods can fail is that they become trapped in local optima - a state where no small modi cation of the curren...
Abstract. Most parallel systems on which MPI is used are now hierarchical: some processors are much closer to others in terms of interconnect performance. One of the most common su...
Hao Zhu, David Goodell, William Gropp, Rajeev Thak...
Declustering techniques reduce query response times through parallel I/O by distributing data among multiple devices. Most of the research on declustering is targeted at spatial r...
As views in a data warehouse become more complex, the view maintenance process can become very complicated and potentially very inefficient. Storing auxiliary views in the warehou...
We propose a new model for on-demand media streaming centered around the peer-to-peer (P2P) paradigm. The proposed P2P model can support a large number of clients with a low overa...