Current distributed database and stream processing systems assume that the network connecting nodes in the data processor is "always on," and that the absence of a netwo...
Yang Zhang, Bret Hull, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel M...
As XML database sizes grow, the amount of space used for storing the data and auxiliary data structures becomes a major factor in query and update performance. This paper presents...
Applications like multimedia retrieval require efficient support for similarity search on large data collections. Yet, nearest neighbor search is a difficult problem in high dimen...
Arjen P. de Vries, Nikos Mamoulis, Niels Nes, Mart...
Bitmap indexes are widely used in Decision Support Systems (DSSs) to improve query performance. In this paper, we evaluate the use of compressed inverted indexes with adapted quer...
Resource discovery is a problem common to almost all distributed systems. Instead of resulting in a one or a small number of discovery mechanisms, completely different and incompa...