We consider the fundamental operation of applying a conjunction of selection conditions to a set of records. With large main memories available cheaply, systems may choose to keep...
Index compression techniques are known to substantially decrease the storage requirements of a text retrieval system. As a side-effect, they may increase its retrieval performanc...
The increasing demand for group support in software has drawn more attention to the field of designing Group Support Systems. Notwithstanding all the research in this field the pr...
Software-controlled data prefetching is a promising technique for improving the performance of the memory subsystem to match today's high-performance processors. While prefet...
Mobile multimedia systems are growing in complexity, scalability and thus correspondingly in their implementation challenges. By design, these systems have built-in error resilienc...
Fadi J. Kurdahi, Ahmed M. Eltawil, Kang Yi, Stanle...