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...
Rendering networks and distributed systems self-managing and self-optimizing has become a major research focus. This task is especially important for systems, such as publish/subsc...
NANDFS is a flash file system that exposes a memory-performance tradeoff to system integrators. The file system can be configured to use a large amount of RAM, in which case i...
We consider the problem of e-Infrastructures that wish to reconcile the generality of their services with the bespoke requirements of diverse user communities. We motivate the requ...
Fabio Simeoni, Leonardo Candela, David Lievens, Pa...
Abstract. In systems based on organisational specifications a reoccurring problem remains to be solved in the disparity between the level actness of the organisational concepts an...