Ranking of query/search answers, although introduced by early information retrieval systems, has become mandatory for internet searches. When the answers of a query or search are ...
We propose to adapt the newly emerged cache-oblivious model to relational query processing. Our goal is to automatically achieve an overall performance comparable to that of fine-...
The performance of parallel query processing in a cluster of index servers is crucial for modern web search systems. In such a scenario, the response time basically depends on the...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Ber...
The self-tuning dynP scheduler for modern cluster resource management systems switches between different basic scheduling policies dynamically during run time. This allows to reac...
Data consistency is very desirable because strong semantic properties make it easier to write correct programs that perform as users expect. However, there are good reasons why co...