We consider the setting of a multiprocessor where the speeds of the m processors can be individually scaled. Jobs arrive over time and have varying degrees of parallelizability. A...
Flash memory affects not only storage options but also query processing. In this paper, we analyze the use of flash memory for database query processing, including algorithms that...
Goetz Graefe, Stavros Harizopoulos, Harumi A. Kuno...
Data-intensive parallel applications on clouds need to deploy large data sets from the cloud's storage facility to all compute nodes as fast as possible. Many multicast algori...
Tatsuhiro Chiba, Mathijs den Burger, Thilo Kielman...
Reasoning about capabilities in multi-agent systems is crucial for many applications. There are two aspects of reasoning about the capabilities of an agent to achieve its goals. O...
Internet radio and television stations require significant bandwidth to support delivery of high quality audio and video streams to a large number of receivers. IP multicast is a...