Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing offers new possibilities to scientific communities. One of the most significant is the ability to elastically provision and relin...
Understanding the energy consumption of flash devices is important for two reasons. First, energy is emerging as a key metric for data management systems. It is thus important to ...
This paper proposes the compression of data in Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) using existing text compression algorithms. Although the technique proposed is general...
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Within the last few years, knowledge management has become one of the hottest subjects among organisational and information systems theorists and practitioners. Many find in it an...