Data intensive applications on clusters often require requests quickly be sent to the node managing the desired data. In many applications, one must look through a sorted tree str...
Abstract Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have become a powerful means for online data exchange. Currently, users are primarily utilizing these networks to perform exact-match queries a...
Today, there is an increasing demand to share data with complex data types (e.g., multi-dimensional) over large numbers of data sources. One of the key challenges is sharing these ...
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...
In this paper, we propose a new tunable index scheme, called iMinMax, that maps points in high dimensional spaces to single dimension values determined by their maximum or minimu...