There is a fundamental discrepancy between the targeted and actual users of current analytics frameworks. Most systems are designed for the challenges of the Googles and Facebooks of the world— processing petabytes of data distributed across large cloud deployments consisting of thousands of cheap commodity machines. Yet, the vast majority of users analyze relatively small datasets of up to sev...

COVER A multirobot construction system inspired by mound-building termites. Independent climbing robots with onboard sensors automatically build user-specifi ed structures out of specialized brick-sized building material. The robots are limited to local sensing and coordinate their activity indirectly by manipulating their shared environment and reacting to what they encounter. See pages 742 an...

The present day world dealing with big data (expanding very fast in 4Vs: Volume, Varity, Velocity and Veracity) needs New advanced kind of logical and physical storage structures, New advanced kind of heterogeneous data structures, New mathematical theories and New models for processing giant big data in 4Vs. In the literature, there is no appropriate data structure for big data, no appropriate...

In ancient texts, 40 was a magic number. It meant a “lot” or “a long time.” 40 years represented the time it took for a new generation to arise. A look back at 40 years of VLDB suggests that this applies to database researchers as well – the young researchers of the early VLDBs are now the old folks of the database world, and a new generation is creating afresh. Over this period many plateaus o...