Requirements from new types of applications call for new database system solutions. Computational science applications performing distributed computations on Grid networks with req...
In peer-to-peer data management systems query allocation is a critical issue for the good operation of the system. This task is challenging because participants may prefer to perf...
— In this paper, we introduce a search engine, Dgoogle, designed for large scale P2P systems. Dgoogle is purely text-based, does not organize documents based on pre-defined keyw...
Spatial join is an important yet costly operation in spatial databases. In order to speed up the execution of a spatial join, the input tables are often indexed based on their spa...
In this paper, we present an in-depth analysis of the memory system performance of the DSS commercial workloads on two state-of-the-art multiprocessors: the SGI Origin 2000 and th...