Google’s project to digitize five of the world's greatest libraries will dramatically extend their search engine reach in the future. Current search-engine philosophy, which...
Today mobile computing is pervasively taking over the traditional desktop computing. Mobile devices are characterized by abrupt and unannounced changes in execution context. The ap...
Uzair Ahmad, S. Y. Lee, Mahrin Iqbal, Uzma Nasir, ...
Genetic Studies examine relationships between genetic variation and disease development. Pharmacogenetics studies the responses to drugs against genetic variation. These two lines ...
We present a formal analysis of the database layout problem, i.e., the problem of determining how database objects such as tables and indexes are assigned to disk drives. Optimizin...
A common technique for improving performance for database query retrieval is to decluster the database among multiple disks so that retrievals can be parallelized. In this paper we...