Abstract. The natural and surrogate key architectures are two competing approaches to specifying keys in relational databases. We analyze the performance of these approaches with r...
Slavica Aleksic, Milan Celikovic, Sebastian Link, ...
The computational power needed for searching exponentially growing databases, such as GenBank, has increased dramatically. Three different implementations of the most widely used ...
We present BloomUnit, a testing framework for distributed programs written in the Bloom language. BloomUnit allows developers to write declarative test specifications that descri...
Peter Alvaro, Andrew Hutchinson, Neil Conway, Will...
Abstract—This paper proposes LARS, a location-aware recommender system that uses location-based ratings to produce recommendations. Traditional recommender systems do not conside...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed Sarwat, Ahmed Eldawy...
— Location-based services (LBS) have been widely accepted by mobile users. Many LBS users have direction-aware search requirement that answers must be in a search direction. Howe...