High performance computing is critical for financial markets where analysts seek to accelerate complex optimizations such as pricing engines to maintain a competitive edge. In th...
The Web has been flooded with highly heterogeneous data sources that freely offer their data to the public. Careful design and compliance to standards is a way to cope with the he...
The popularity of high-density flash memory as data storage media has increased steadily for a wide spectrum of computing devices such as PDA's, MP3 players, mobile phones an...
As most blogs and traditional media support RSS or Atom feeds, the news feed technology becomes increasingly prevalent. Taking advantage of ubiquitous news feeds, we design FeedEx...
In many situations it is convenient to represent pictorial data in the form of contours. It may become necessary to compress such contour data for efficient storage and transmissi...