Thread migration is established as a mechanism for achieving dynamic load sharing. However, fine-grained migration has not been used due to the high thread and messaging overheads...
This paper reports results from a failure analysis (i.e., incorrect query construction) of 51,473 queries from 18,113 users of Excite, a major Web search engine. Given that many d...
This paper first outlines a multi-level video indexing approach based on Dublin Core extensions and the Resource Description Framework (RDF). The advantages and disadvantages of t...
Abstract. Amongst its many features, MPI-2 offers the first standard highperformance I/O interface. While this enables a parallel and I/O intensive code to run on multiple platform...
A general technique for merging database schemas is developed that has a number of advantages over existing techniques, the most important of which is that schemas are placed in a...