The NP machine hypothesis posits the existence of an ǫ > 0 and a nondeterministic polynomial-time Turing machine M which accepts the language 0∗ but for which no determinist...
: This work investigates the integration of heterogeneous resources, such as data and programs, in a fully distributed peer-to-peer mediation architecture. The challenge in making ...
MapReduce is a popular framework for data-intensive distributed computing of batch jobs. To simplify fault tolerance, the output of each MapReduce task and job is materialized to ...
Tyson Condie, Neil Conway, Peter Alvaro, Joseph M....
We consider a distributed system where each node keeps a local count for items (similar to elections where nodes are ballot boxes and items are candidates). A top-k query in such ...
Due to the enormous increase in the stored digital contents, search and retrieval functionalities are necessary in multimedia systems. Though processor speed for standard PCs (Per...