Data intensive applications, e.g. in life sciences, pose new efficiency challenges to the service composition problem. Since today computing power is mainly increased by multiplica...
networking with a layer 2 abstraction provides a powerful model for virtualized wide-area distributed computing resources, including for high performance computing (HPC) on collec...
Lei Xia, Zheng Cui, John R. Lange, Yuan Tang, Pete...
The similarity join is an important operation for mining high-dimensional feature spaces. Given two data sets, the similarity join computes all tuples (x, y) that are within a dis...
To construct high performance Web servers, system builders are increasingly turning to distributed designs. An important challenge that arises in such designs is the need to direc...
Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, Jun Liu, David Mart...
The cross fertilization of methods and techniques between different subject areas in the undergraduate curriculum is a challenge, especially at the more advanced levels. This paper...