In this paper we provide a fast, data-driven solution to the failing query problem: given a query that returns an empty answer, how can one relax the query's constraints so t...
The similarity join has become an important database primitive to support similarity search and data mining. A similarity join combines two sets of complex objects such that the r...
We explore the execution of queries with client-site userdefined functions (UDFs). Many UDFs can only be executed at the client site, for reasons of scalability, security, confide...
The ability to find services or resources that satisfy some criteria is an important aspect of distributed systems. This paper presents an event-based architecture to support more...
The networking and distributed systems communities have recently explored a variety of new network architectures, both for applicationlevel overlay networks, and as prototypes for...
Boon Thau Loo, Tyson Condie, Minos N. Garofalakis,...