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SOSP
2009
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Modular data storage with Anvil
Databases have achieved orders-of-magnitude performance improvements by changing the layout of stored data – for instance, by arranging data in columns or compressing it before ...
Mike Mammarella, Shant Hovsepian, Eddie Kohler
ICRA
2009
IEEE
211views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
Climbing rough vertical surfaces with hierarchical directional adhesion
— Prior research in biology and mechanics has shown the importance of hierarchy to the performance of dry adhesive systems on rough surfaces. The gecko utilizes several levels of...
Alan T. Asbeck, Sanjay Dastoor, Aaron Parness, Lau...
ICS
2007
Tsinghua U.
15 years 5 months ago
Automatic nonblocking communication for partitioned global address space programs
Overlapping communication with computation is an important optimization on current cluster architectures; its importance is likely to increase as the doubling of processing power ...
Wei-Yu Chen, Dan Bonachea, Costin Iancu, Katherine...
VLDB
2004
ACM
114views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
15 years 4 months ago
Hardware Acceleration in Commercial Databases: A Case Study of Spatial Operations
Traditional databases have focused on the issue of reducing I/O cost as it is the bottleneck in many operations. As databases become increasingly accepted in areas such as Geograp...
Nagender Bandi, Chengyu Sun, Amr El Abbadi, Divyak...
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
A statistical relational model for trust learning
We address the learning of trust based on past observations and context information. We argue that from the truster's point of view trust is best expressed as one of several ...
Achim Rettinger, Matthias Nickles, Volker Tresp