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2011
ACM
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On (not) indexing quadratic form distance by metric access methods
The quadratic form distance (QFD) has been utilized as an effective similarity function in multimedia retrieval, in particular, when a histogram representation of objects is used...
Tomás Skopal, Tomás Bartos, Jakub Lo...
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Database engines on multicores, why parallelize when you can distribute?
Multicore computers pose a substantial challenge to infrastructure software such as operating systems or databases. Such software typically evolves slower than the underlying hard...
Tudor-Ioan Salomie, Ionut Emanuel Subasu, Jana Gic...
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Scarlett: coping with skewed content popularity in mapreduce clusters
To improve data availability and resilience MapReduce frameworks use file systems that replicate data uniformly. However, analysis of job logs from a large production cluster show...
Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Sameer Agarwal, Srikanth ...
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Increasing performance in byzantine fault-tolerant systems with on-demand replica consistency
Traditional agreement-based Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) systems process all requests on all replicas to ensure consistency. In addition to the overhead for BFT protocol and sta...
Tobias Distler, Rüdiger Kapitza
FOGA
2011
14 years 10 months ago
Approximating the distribution of fitness over hamming regions
The distribution of fitness values across a set of states sharply influences the dynamics of evolutionary processes and heuristic search in combinatorial optimization. In this p...
Andrew M. Sutton, Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe