Most operations of the relational algebra or SQL - like projection with duplicate elimination, join, ordering, group by and aggregations - are efficiently processed using a sorted...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Autotuning technology has emerged recently as a systematic process for evaluating alternative implementations of a computation, in order to select the best-performing solution for...
Jaewook Shin, Mary W. Hall, Jacqueline Chame, Chun...
We present an analogy between the operation of a Wireless Sensor Network and the sampling and reconstruction of a signal. We measure the impact of three factors on the quality of ...
We introduce a language for creating and manipulating certificates, that is, digitally signed data based on public key cryptography, and a system for revoking certificates. Our ap...