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LSM-tree-based data stores are widely adopted in industries for their excellent performance. As data scales increase, disk-based join operations become indispensable yet costly for the database, making the selection of suitable join methods…

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Learning from the multidimensional data has been an interesting concept in the field of machine learning. However, such learning can be difficult, complex, expensive because of expensive data processing, manipulations as the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Mahbubur Rahman

State Machine Replication (SMR) is a fundamental approach to designing service with fault tolerance. However, its requirement for the deterministic execution of transactions often results in single-threaded replicas, which cannot fully…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Gang Wu1 , Guodong Zhao , Yidong Song

We study the impact of merging routines in merge-based sorting algorithms. More precisely, we focus on the galloping routine that TimSort uses to merge monotonic sub-arrays, hereafter called runs, and on the impact on the number of element…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Elahe Ghasemi , Vincent Jugé , Ghazal Khalighinejad , Helia Yazdanyar

The need for scalable concurrent ordered set data structures with linearizable range query support is increasing due to the rise of multicore computers, data processing platforms and in-memory databases. This paper presents a new concurrent…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Kjell Winblad

The use of large-scale machine learning methods is becoming ubiquitous in many applications ranging from business intelligence to self-driving cars. These methods require a complex computation pipeline consisting of various types of…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Yongyang Yu , Mingjie Tang , Walid G. Aref

The two most prominent solutions for the sorting problem are Quicksort and Mergesort. While Quicksort is very fast on average, Mergesort additionally gives worst-case guarantees, but needs extra space for a linear number of elements.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Stefan Edelkamp , Armin Weiß

Recent work in database query optimization has used complex machine learning strategies, such as customized reinforcement learning schemes. Surprisingly, we show that LLM embeddings of query text contain useful semantic information for…

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Priority queues are fundamental abstract data structures, often used to manage limited resources in parallel programming. Several proposed parallel priority queue implementations are based on skiplists, harnessing the potential for…

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The size of a data structure (i.e., the number of elements in it) is a widely used property of a data set. However, for concurrent programs, obtaining a correct size efficiently is non-trivial. In fact, the literature does not offer a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Gal Sela , Erez Petrank

We consider the classical problem of representing a collection of priority queues under the operations \Findmin{}, \Insert{}, \Decrease{}, \Meld{}, \Delete{}, and \Deletemin{}. In the comparison-based model, if the first four operations are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Amr Elmasry , Jyrki Katajainen

Sorting has been one of the most challenging studied problems in different scientific researches. Although many techniques and algorithms have been proposed on the theory of having efficient parallel sorting implementation, however…

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In this paper, we revisit the classic problem of run generation. Run generation is the first phase of external-memory sorting, where the objective is to scan through the data, reorder elements using a small buffer of size M , and output…

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Message Passing Interface (MPI) is widely used to implement parallel programs. Although Windowsbased architectures provide the facilities of parallel execution and multi-threading, little attention has been focused on using MPI on these…

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The problem of {\em efficiently} finding the best match for a query in a given set with respect to the Euclidean distance or the cosine similarity has been extensively studied in literature. However, a closely related problem of efficiently…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Parikshit Ram , Alexander G. Gray

Typical legacy information systems store data in relational databases. Process mining is a research discipline that analyzes this data to obtain insights into processes. Many different process mining techniques can be applied to data. In…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Alifah Syamsiyah , Boudewijn F. van Dongen , Remco M. Dijkman

Integer sorting on multicores and GPUs can be realized by a variety of approaches that include variants of distribution-based methods such as radix-sort, comparison-oriented algorithms such as deterministic regular sampling and random…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Alexandros V. Gerbessiotis

Servers produced by mainstream vendors are inefficient in processing Big Data queries due to bottlenecks inherent in the fundamental architecture of these systems. Current server blades contain multicore processors connected to DRAM memory…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Ed T. Upchurch

Learned index structures have been shown to achieve favorable lookup performance and space consumption compared to their traditional counterparts such as B-trees. However, most learned index studies have focused on the primary indexing…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Andreas Kipf , Dominik Horn , Pascal Pfeil , Ryan Marcus , Tim Kraska

Evaluating the performance of clustering models is a challenging task where the outcome depends on the definition of what constitutes a cluster. Due to this design, current existing metrics rarely handle multiple clustering models with…

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