Data replication is a central technique to increase availability and performance of distributed systems. While offering many advantages it also requires more effort for ensuring d...
Daniel Klan, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Katja Hose, Marcel K...
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
Data-intensive parallel applications on clouds need to deploy large data sets from the cloud's storage facility to all compute nodes as fast as possible. Many multicast algori...
Tatsuhiro Chiba, Mathijs den Burger, Thilo Kielman...
Abstract—Parallel file systems are designed to mask the everincreasing gap between CPU and disk speeds via parallel I/O processing. While they have become an indispensable compo...
— One of the main tasks software testing involves is the generation of the test cases to be used during the test. Due to its expensive cost, the automation of this task has becom...