Lightweight photo sharing, particularly via mobile devices, is fast becoming a common communication medium used for maintaining a presence in the lives of friends and family. How ...
Caching data by maintaining materialized views typically requires updating the cache appropriately to reflect dynamic source updates. Extensive research has addressed the problem ...
Arsany Sawires, Jun'ichi Tatemura, Oliver Po, Divy...
B-trees are the data structure of choice for maintaining searchable data on disk. However, B-trees perform suboptimally ? when keys are long or of variable length, ? when keys are...
Michael A. Bender, Martin Farach-Colton, Bradley C...
Efficient search for nearest neighbors (NN) is a fundamental problem arising in a large variety of applications of vast practical interest. In this paper we propose a novel techniq...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are gaining increasing popularity as a scalable means to share data among a large number of autonomous nodes. In this paper, we consider the case in whic...