Conceptually, fast server-side page cache storage could dramatically reduce paging I/O. In this extended abstract, we speculate how such a device might be used, then show how it c...
Daniel J. Magenheimer, Chris Mason, Dave McCracken...
Assume that each object in a database has m grades, or scores, one for each of m attributes. For example, an object can have a color grade, that tells how red it is, and a shape g...
XQuery is increasingly popular among computer scientists with a SQL background, since queries in XQuery and SQL require comparable skills to be formulated. However, the number of ...
Recent advances in compressed data structures have led to the new concept of self-indexing; it is possible to represent a sequence of symbols compressed in a form that enables fas...
We present Aardvark, a social search engine. With Aardvark, users ask a question, either by instant message, email, web input, text message, or voice. Aardvark then routes the que...