Recently, a significant number of parallel and distributed algorithms have been proposed to mine frequent patterns (FP) from large and/or distributed databases. Among them parallelization of the ...

The Dryad and DryadLINQ systems offer a new programming model for large scale data-parallel computing. They generalize previous execution environments such as SQL and MapReduce in three ways: by ...

The tide is changing for analytics architectures. Traditional approaches, from the data warehouse to the data lake, implicitly assume that all relevant data can be stored in a single, centralized ...

This report summarises the achievements of the EPSRC Parade project (GRJ/53348), which ran from June 1994 to September 1997. We have made contributions in the following three areas. Parallel Language ...