Database queries can be broadly classified into two categories: reporting queries and aggregation queries. The former retrieves a collection of records from the database that mat...
Redundancy is the basic technique to provide reliability in storage systems consisting of multiple components. A redundancy scheme defines how the redundant data are produced and...
In a mobile computing system, caching data items at the mobile clients is important to reduce the data access delay in a unreliable and low bandwidth mobile network. However, effi...
Joe Chun-Hung Yuen, Edward Chan, Kam-yiu Lam, Hei-...
—Cloud computing is enabling groups of academic collaborators, groups of business partners, etc., to come together in an ad-hoc manner. This paper focuses on the group-based data...
The exceptional growth of graphics hardware in programmability and data processing speed in the past few years has fuelled extensive research in using it for general purpose compu...