Scheduling/prioritization of DBMS transactions is important for many applications that rely on database backends. A convenient way to achieve scheduling is to limit the number of ...
Bianca Schroeder, Mor Harchol-Balter, Arun Iyengar...
In many database applications involving string data, it is common to have near neighbor queries (asking for strings that are similar to a query string) or nearest neighbor queries...
Load balancing is a technique which allows efficient parallelization of irregular workloads, and a key component of many applications and parallelizing runtimes. Work-stealing is ...
Maged M. Michael, Martin T. Vechev, Vijay A. Saras...
This work introduces a new family of link-based dissimilarity measures between nodes of a weighted directed graph. This measure, called the randomized shortest-path (RSP) dissimil...
Luh Yen, Marco Saerens, Amin Mantrach, Masashi Shi...
Web search engines present search results in a rank ordered list. This works when what a user wants is near the top, but sometimes the information that the user really wants is lo...