The amount of data collected and stored in databases is growing considerably for almost all areas of human activity. Processing this amount of data is very expensive, both humanly...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
We consider a cluster architecture in which dynamic content is generated by a database back-end and a collection of Web and application server front-ends. We study the effect of t...
This paper proposes the live demonstration of a prototype of MINERVA1 , a novel P2P Web search engine. The search engine is layered on top of a DHT-based overlay network that conn...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafi...
This paper addresses the problem of the performance evaluation of algorithms for the automatic detection of note onsets in music signals. Our experiments show that creating a data...