Abstract-- This work presents a novel index structure, MHRtree, for efficiently answering approximate string match queries in large spatial databases. The MHR-tree is based on the ...
Bin Yao, Feifei Li, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, Kun H...
Metric access methods (MAMs) serve as a tool for speeding similarity queries. However, all MAMs developed so far are index-based; they need to build an index on a given database. T...
The transition to multicore architectures has dramatically underscored the necessity for parallelism in software. In particular, while new gaming consoles are by and large multicor...
Micah J. Best, Alexandra Fedorova, Ryan Dickie, An...
Group communication primitives have broad utility as building blocks for distributed applications. The challenge is to create and maintain the distributed structures that support ...
Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian T. Foster, A...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a new approach to indexing multidimensional data that is particularly suitable for the efficient incremental processing of nearest neighbor quer...