The DAG-based task graph model has been found effective in scheduling for performance prediction and optimization of parallel applications. However the scheduling complexity and s...
Time of creation is one of the predominant (often implicit) clustering strategies found not only in Data Warehouse systems: line items are created together with their correspondin...
The elapsed time for external mergesort is normally dominated by I/O time. This paper is focused on reducing I/O time during the merge phase. Three new buffering and readahead str...
This paper presents a hybrid shared memory architecture which combines the scalability of a multistage interconnection network with the contention reduction benefits of coherent c...
We built a system for the automatic creation of a textbased topic hierarchy, meant to be used in a geographically defined community. This poses two main problems. First, the appea...