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Reliable strategies for implementing model-based navigation on fixed-wing drones

A relatively novel approach of autonomous navigation employing platform dynamics as the primary process model raises new implementational challenges. These are related to: (i) potential numerical instabilities during longer flights; (ii) the quality of mod ...

2023

LAQy: Efficient and Reusable Query Approximations via Lazy Sampling

Anastasia Ailamaki, Viktor Sanca, Periklis Chrysogelos

Modern analytical engines rely on Approximate Query Processing (AQP) to provide faster response times than the hardware allows for exact query answering. However, existing AQP methods impose steep performance penalties as workload unpredictability increase ...

2023

Micro-architectural Analysis of Database Workloads

Utku Sirin

Database workloads have significantly evolved in the past twenty years. Traditional database systems that are mainly used to serve Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) workloads evolved into specialized database systems that are optimized for particular ...

EPFL2021

Micro-architectural analysis of in-memory OLTP: Revisited

Anastasia Ailamaki, Danica Porobic, Utku Sirin

Micro-architectural behavior of traditional disk-based online transaction processing (OLTP) systems has been investigated extensively over the past couple of decades. Results show that traditional OLTP systems mostly under-utilize the available micro-archi ...

2021

Timely and cost-efficient data exploration through adaptive tuning

Matthaios Alexandros Olma

Modern applications accumulate data at an exponentially increasing rate and traditional database systems struggle to keep up. Decision support systems used in industry, rely heavily on data analysis, and require real-time responses irrespective of data siz ...

EPFL2019

Just-in-time Analytics Over Heterogeneous Data and Hardware

Manolis Karpathiotakis

Industry and academia are continuously becoming more data-driven and data-intensive, relying on the analysis of a wide variety of datasets to gain insights. At the same time, data variety increases continuously across multiple axes. First, data comes in mu ...

EPFL2017

Efficient Online Processing for Advanced Analytics

Mohamed Elsayed Mohamed Ahmed El Seidy

With the advent of emerging technologies and the Internet of Things, the importance of online data analytics has become more pronounced. Businesses and companies are adopting approaches that provide responsive analytics to stay competitive in the global ma ...

EPFL2017

Program Analysis and Compilation Techniques for Speeding up Transactional Database Workloads

Mohammad Dashti Rahmat Abadi

There is a trend towards increased specialization of data management software for performance reasons. The improved performance not only leads to a more efficient usage of the underlying hardware and cuts the operation costs of the system, but also is a ga ...

EPFL2017

Building Efficient Query Engines using High-Level Languages

Ioannis Klonatos

We are currently witnessing a shift towards the use of high-level programming languages for systems development. These approaches collide with the traditional wisdom which calls for using low-level languages for building efficient software systems. This sh ...

EPFL2017

Keystroke Biometrics Ongoing Competition

Sébastien Marcel, André Anjos

This paper presents the first Keystroke Biometrics Ongoing Competition (KBOC) organized to establish a reproducible baseline in person authentication using keystroke biometrics. The competition has been developed using the BEAT platform and includes one of ...

2016

Toward timely, predictable and cost-effective data analytics

Renata Borovica-Gajic

Modern industrial, government, and academic organizations are collecting massive amounts of data at an unprecedented scale and pace. The ability to perform timely, predictable and cost-effective analytical processing of such large data sets in order to ext ...

EPFL2016

Scaling Up Concurrent Analytical Workloads on Multi-Core Servers

Iraklis Psaroudakis

Today, an ever-increasing number of researchers, businesses, and data scientists collect and analyze massive amounts of data in database systems. The database system needs to process the resulting highly concurrent analytical workloads by exploiting modern ...

EPFL2016

Cheap Data Analytics using Cold Storage Devices

Anastasia Ailamaki, Raja Appuswamy, Renata Borovica-Gajic

Enterprise databases use storage tiering to lower capital and operational expenses. In such a setting, data waterfalls from an SSD-based high-performance tier when it is "hot" (frequently accessed) to a disk-based capacity tier and finally to a tape-based ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Micro-architectural Analysis of In-memory OLTP

Anastasia Ailamaki, Pinar Tözün, Danica Porobic, Utku Sirin

Micro-architectural behavior of traditional disk-based online transaction processing (OLTP) systems has been investigated extensively over the past couple of decades. Results show that traditional OLTP mostly under-utilize the available micro-architectural ...

2016

NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files

Anastasia Ailamaki, Ioannis Alagiannis, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Miguel Sérgio De Oliveira Branco

As data collections become larger and larger, users are faced with increasing bottlenecks in their data analysis. More data means more time to prepare and to load the data into the database before executing the desired queries. Many applications already av ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

The IceProd framework: Distributed data processing for the IceCube neutrino observatory

Matthias Wolf, Mark Tobin, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

IceCube is a one-gigaton instrument located at the geographic South Pole, designed to detect cosmic neutrinos, identify the particle nature of dark matter, and study high-energy neutrinos themselves. Simulation of the IceCube detector and processing of dat ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2015

Query management system and engine allowing for efficient query execution on raw details

Anastasia Ailamaki, Ioannis Alagiannis, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Miguel Sérgio De Oliveira Branco

A database system maintains a feature set of a modern database system while operating directly on raw data files. Systems may use an adaptive indexing mechanism that maintains positional information to provide efficient access to raw data files, a flexible ...

2014

H2O: A Hands-free Adaptive Store

Anastasia Ailamaki, Ioannis Alagiannis

Modern state-of-the-art database systems are designed around a single data storage layout. This is a fixed decision that drives the whole architectural design of a database system, i.e., row-stores, column-stores. However, none of those choices is a univer ...

2014

Online indexing and distributed querying model-view sensor data in the cloud

Karl Aberer, Tian Guo, Hao Zhuang

As various kinds of sensors penetrate our daily life (e.g., sensor networks for environmental monitoring, GPS for localization and navigation), the efficient management of massive amount of sensor data becomes increasingly important at present. Many sensor ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2014

Flash-aware Database Transactions

Radu Ioan Stoica

Over the past 40 years, hard disks, the traditional building block of storage systems, have become increasingly slower when compared to the other system components such as the main memory and the CPU. Hard disks face mechanical constraints that cause their ...

EPFL2014