: As cloud services grow to span more and more globally distributed datacenters, there is an increasingly urgent need for automated mechanisms to place application data across thes...
Sharad Agarwal, John Dunagan, Navendu Jain, Stefan...
Increase in amount of data stored and requirement of fast response time has motivated the research in Parallel Database Systems (PDS). Requirement for correctness of data still rem...
Background: The estimation of demographic parameters from genetic data often requires the computation of likelihoods. However, the likelihood function is computationally intractab...
Daniel Wegmann, Christoph Leuenberger, Samuel Neue...
Local ratio is a well-known paradigm for designing approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems. At a very high level, a local-ratio algorithm first decomposes ...