The MapReduce distributed programming framework has become popular, despite evidence that current implementations are inefficient, requiring far more hardware than a traditional r...
Eaman Jahani, Michael J. Cafarella, Christopher R&...
Skyline queries are well suited when retrieving data according to multiple criteria. While most previous work has assumed a centralized setting this paper considers skyline queryi...
Zhiyong Huang, Christian S. Jensen, Hua Lu, Beng C...
FlashDB is a self-tuning database optimized for sensor networks using NAND flash storage. In practical systems flash is used in different packages such as on-board flash chips,...
Many popular online services provide "local" or "yellow-pages" search, but none of them allow users to customize the search over user-specified data. Instead, ...
Naren Datha, Tanuja Joshi, Joseph Joy, Vibhuti S. ...
—We investigate the problem of retrieving similar shapes from a large database; in particular, we focus on medical tumor shapes (“Find tumors that are similar to a given patter...