Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
Computationally complex and data intensive atomic scale biomolecular simulation is enabled via Processing in Network Storage (PINS): a novel distributed system framework to overco...
Paul Brenner, Justin M. Wozniak, Douglas Thain, Aa...
Supporting queries and modifications on XML documents is a challenging task, and several related approaches exist. When implementing query and modification languages efficientl...
Clusters are now composed of non-uniform nodes with different CPUs, disks or network cards so that customers can adapt the cluster configuration to the changing technologies and t...
Tobias Mayr, Philippe Bonnet, Johannes Gehrke, Pra...
Abstract Location-aware technology spawns numerous unforeseen pervasive applications in a wide range of living, production, commence, and public services. This article provides an ...