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ICDE
2005
IEEE
139views Database» more  ICDE 2005»
16 years 7 months ago
Compressing Bitmap Indices by Data Reorganization
Many scientific applications generate massive volumes of data through observations or computer simulations, bringing up the need for effective indexing methods for efficient stora...
Ali Pinar, Tao Tao, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu
STOC
2007
ACM
100views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
16 years 6 months ago
Reordering buffers for general metric spaces
In the reordering buffer problem, we are given an input sequence of requests for service each of which corresponds to a point in a metric space. The cost of serving the requests h...
Matthias Englert, Harald Räcke, Matthias West...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
124views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 6 months ago
Query suspend and resume
Suppose a long-running analytical query is executing on a database server and has been allocated a large amount of physical memory. A high-priority task comes in and we need to ru...
Badrish Chandramouli, Christopher N. Bond, Shivnat...
ICCD
2002
IEEE
141views Hardware» more  ICCD 2002»
16 years 3 months ago
Embedded Operating System Energy Analysis and Macro-Modeling
A large and increasing number of modern embedded systems are subject to tight power/energy constraints. It has been demonstrated that the operating system (OS) can have a signifi...
Tat Kee Tan, Anand Raghunathan, Niraj K. Jha
IROS
2008
IEEE
184views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
16 years 28 days ago
Morpho: A self-deformable modular robot inspired by cellular structure
— We present a modular robot design inspired by the creation of complex structures and functions in biology via deformation. Our design is based on the Tensegrity model of cellul...
Chih-Han Yu, Kristina Haller, Donald E. Ingber, Ra...