Abstract— Defining suitable indexes is a major task when optimizing a database. Usually, a human database administrator defines a set of indexes in the design phase of the data...
Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt, Martin Kempa, Volker...
Contrary to the sequential world, the processes involved in a distributed system do not necessarily know when a computation is globally finished. This paper investigates the proble...
We consider the problem of processing a given number of tasks on a given number of processors as quickly as possible when only vague information about the processing time of a task...
RDBMS's have evolved to an extent that they are used to manage almost all of traditional business data in a robust fashion. Nevertheless, a large fraction of unstructured and...
Background: There are many important clustering questions in computational biology for which no satisfactory method exists. Automated clustering algorithms, when applied to large,...