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2003
ACM
90views Algorithms» more  STOC 2003»
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Work-competitive scheduling for cooperative computing with dynamic groups
The problem of cooperatively performing a set of t tasks in a decentralized setting where the computing medium is subject to failures is one of the fundamental problems in distrib...
Chryssis Georgiou, Alexander Russell, Alexander A....
VLDB
2005
ACM
109views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
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Model-based approximate querying in sensor networks
Abstract Declarative queries are proving to be an attractive paradigm for interacting with networks of wireless sensors. The metaphor that "the sensornet is a database" i...
Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Samuel Madden, Jo...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
168views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
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Database research in computer games
This tutorial presents an overview of the data management issues faced by computer games today. While many games do not use databases directly, they still have to process large am...
Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Christoph Koch, B...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
164views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
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Relational-style XML query
We study the problem of querying relational data embedded in XML. Relational data can be represented by various tree structures in XML. However, current XML query methods, such as...
Taro L. Saito, Shinichi Morishita
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
136views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
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Progressive optimization in a shared-nothing parallel database
Commercial enterprise data warehouses are typically implemented on parallel databases due to the inherent scalability and performance limitation of a serial architecture. Queries ...
Wook-Shin Han, Jack Ng, Volker Markl, Holger Kache...