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WOB
2004
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15 years 8 months ago
An I/O Device Driver for Bioinformatics Tools: the case for BLAST
There are many bioinformatics tools that deal with input/ output (I/O) issues by using filing systems from the most common operating systems, such as Linux or MS Windows. However, ...
Renato Mauro, Sérgio Lifschitz
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
126views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 7 months ago
On efficient top-k query processing in highly distributed environments
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
Akrivi Vlachou, Christos Doulkeridis, Kjetil N&osl...
VLDB
1998
ACM
138views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
15 years 11 months ago
TOPAZ: a Cost-Based, Rule-Driven, Multi-Phase Parallelizer
Currently the key problems of query optimization are extensibility imposed by object-relational technology, as well as query complexity caused by forthcoming applications, such as...
Clara Nippl, Bernhard Mitschang
DAGSTUHL
2006
15 years 8 months ago
On the Topologies Formed by Selfish Peers
Current peer-to-peer (P2P) systems often suffer from a large fraction of freeriders not contributing any resources to the network. Various mechanisms have been designed to overcom...
Stefan Schmid, Thomas Moscibroda, Roger Wattenhofe...
CCGRID
2007
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
A Distributed Query Execution Engine in a Grid Environment
Grid is a computational environment in which applications can use multiple distributed computational resources in a safe, coordinated, efficient and transparent way. Data Integra...
Gustavo G. Trevisol, Cristiano Biancardi, Á...