The market demand for portable multimedia applications has exploded in the recent years. Unfortunately, for such applications current compilers and software optimization methods o...
Armita Peymandoust, Tajana Simunic, Giovanni De Mi...
Progressive Optimization (POP) is a technique to make query plans robust, and minimize need for DBA intervention, by repeatedly re-optimizing a query during runtime if the cardina...
Vijayshankar Raman, Volker Markl, David E. Simmen,...
Abstract. Nearest-neighbor queries in high-dimensional space are of high importance in various applications, especially in content-based indexing of multimedia data. For an optimiz...
Code specialization is a way to obtain significant improvement in the performance of an application. It works by exposing values of different parameters in source code. The availa...
Minhaj Ahmad Khan, Henri-Pierre Charles, Denis Bar...
We investigate the class of single-round, sealed-bid auctions for a set of identical items in unlimited supply. We adopt the worst-case competitive framework defined by [8, 4] th...