We investigate a novel multicast technique, called Skyscraper Broadcasting (SB), for video-on-demand applications. We discuss the data fragmentation technique, the broadcasting st...
Informed prefetching and caching based on application disclosure of future I/O accesses (hints) can dramatically reduce the execution time of I/O-intensive applications. A recent ...
Andrew Tomkins, R. Hugo Patterson, Garth A. Gibson
Abstract. We study online learning algorithms that predict by combining the predictions of several subordinate prediction algorithms, sometimes called “experts.” These simple a...
Yoav Freund, Robert E. Schapire, Yoram Singer, Man...
Today, two classes of indexing methods enjoying wide applicability are the Inverted Index and the Superimposed Coding based Signature File (SC-SF). The former is most efficient i...
Dimitrios Dervos, P. Linardis, Yannis Manolopoulos
In this paper, we present a complete analysis of redundant relationships in the entity-relationship model. Existing approaches use the concept of functional dependencies for ident...