One of the important problems in data mining is discovering association rules from databases of transactions where each transaction consists of a set of items. The most time consu...
On a distributed memory machine, hand-coded message passing leads to the most efficient execution, but it is difficult to use. Parallelizing compilers can approach the performance...
A new type of optimization, called predicate move-around, ia introduced. It is shown how this optimization `considerably improvea the efficiency of evaluating SQL queries that hav...
Alon Y. Levy, Inderpal Singh Mumick, Yehoshua Sagi...
This paper assumes a set of n mobile sensors that move in the Euclidean plane as a swarm1 . Our objectives are to explore a given geographic region by detecting and aggregating sp...
Peer-to-peer environments have become popular as a framework for exchange of services. In these environments, certain peers may fail to provide their services. Reputation can be a...