Data mining techniques are routinely used by fundraisers to select those prospects from a large pool of candidates who are most likely to make a financial contribution. These tech...
There is currently considerable enthusiasm around the MapReduce (MR) paradigm for large-scale data analysis [17]. Although the basic control flow of this framework has existed in ...
Andrew Pavlo, Erik Paulson, Alexander Rasin, Danie...
Two trends are converging to make the CPU cost of a table scan a more important component of database performance. First, table scans are becoming a larger fraction of the query p...
Allison L. Holloway, Vijayshankar Raman, Garret Sw...
Many of today’s web sites contain substantial amounts of client-side code, and consequently, they act more like programs than simple documents. This creates robustness and perfo...
We evaluate an asynchronous gossiping middleware for wireless users that propagates messages from any group member to all the other group members. This propagation can either be i...