: We derandomize results of H?astad (1999) and Feige and Kilian (1998) and show that for all > 0, approximating MAX CLIQUE and CHROMATIC NUMBER to within n1are NP-hard. We furt...
This paper presents three policies for effectively utilizing TCP offload network interfaces that support connection handoff. These policies allow connection handoff to reduce the ...
Traditional duplicate elimination techniques are not applicable to many data stream applications. In general, precisely eliminating duplicates in an unbounded data stream is not f...
We present our prototype system, OMCAT, which optimizes the reevaluation of a set of pending continuous spatio-temporal queries on trajectory data, when some of the trajectories a...
User written transaction code is responsible for the "C" in ACID transactions, i.e., taking the database from one consistent state to the next. However, user transaction...