Torsten Suel is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the

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. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the

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under the supervision of

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. He works on the subjects of implementation of

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computation,

streaming algorithm In computer science, streaming algorithms are algorithms for processing data streams in which the input is presented as a sequence of items and can be examined in only a few passes, typically one-pass algorithm, just one. These algorithms are desi ...

s for

histogram A histogram is a visual representation of the frequency distribution, distribution of quantitative data. To construct a histogram, the first step is to Data binning, "bin" (or "bucket") the range of values— divide the entire range of values in ...

join Join may refer to: * Join (law), to include additional counts or additional defendants on an indictment *In mathematics: ** Join (mathematics), a least upper bound of sets orders in lattice theory ** Join (topology), an operation combining two topo ...

operations in

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and a ...

distributed algorithm A distributed algorithm is an algorithm designed to run on computer hardware constructed from interconnected processors. Distributed algorithms are used in different application areas of distributed computing, such as telecommunications, scientifi ...

s for

dominating set In graph theory, a dominating set for a Graph (discrete mathematics), graph is a subset of its vertices, such that any vertex of is in , or has a neighbor in . The domination number is the number of vertices in a smallest dominating set for ...

s, and

web crawler Web crawler, sometimes called a spider or spiderbot and often shortened to crawler, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web and that is typically operated by search engines for the purpose of Web indexing (''web spider ...

algorithms. A conference paper he co-authored in 2011 introduces fast retrieval techniques that were integrated into the

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search engine library.

Selected bibliography

According to Google Scholar's citation list, Suel has 34 journal articles or conference proceedings cited 34 or more times. His five highest cited

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ed papers and IEEE conference proceedings are: * Jonathan Hill, Bill McColl, Dan C Stefanescu, Mark W Goudreau, Kevin Lang, Satish B Rao, Torsten Suel, Thanasis Tsantilas, Rob H Bisseling, "BSPlib: The BSP programming library" ''Parallel Computing'' 24(13), pp. 1947–1980. (1999) Cited 352 times according to Google Scholar; Cited 99 times in Scopus, * HV Jagadish, Nick Koudas, S Muthukrishnan, Viswanath Poosala, Ken Sevcik, Torsten Suel "Optimal histograms with quality guarantees" ''Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases'' (2002) pp. 275–286, IEEE, cited 325 times, according to Google Scholar * Vladislav Shkapenyuk, Torsten Suel "Design and implementation of a high-performance distributed web crawler" pp. 357–368 ''Data Engineering 2002: Proceedings. 18th International Conference on Data Engineering'', IEEE,(2002) Cited 240 times, according to Google Scholar * Lujun Jia, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Torsten Suel, "An efficient distributed algorithm for constructing small dominating sets" ''Distributed Computing'' 15(3) pp. 193–205 (2002) Cited 188 times, according to Google Scholar. *

Lars Arge Lars Allan Arge (8 October 1967 – 23 December 2020) was a Danish computer scientist, the head of the Center for Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO) at Aarhus University, where he was also a professor of computer science. His research involved t ...

, Octavian Procopiuc, Sridhar Ramaswamy, Torsten Suel, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, "Scalable sweeping-based spatial join" ''Proceedings Of The International Conference On Very Large Data Bases'' pp. 570–581 IEEE, 1998. Cited 173 times, according to Google Scholar.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suel, Torsten German computer scientists 1966 births Living people German emigrants to the United States University of Texas at Austin alumni New York University faculty Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty Scientists from New York (state)