ABSTRACT
To date, the natural growth path for computer systems has been in supporting technologies such as data storage density, processing capability, and per-user network bandwidth. The usefulness of Internet and intranet networks has fueled the growth of computing applications and in turn the complexity of their administration. In the presence of more than 30 billion pages on the “surface web,” the “deep web” containing 450 to 500 times more volume in documents than the “surface web,” data growth rate of approximately 217% and over 2.2 billion Internet users,1 which is between 3 and 15 times larger than today’s telephone system, the growth of information systems is astronomical. Furthermore, as the overall number of sensor devices in the world is increasing constantly at a rapid pace, these data sets offer a foretaste of the type of numerical techniques needed to resolve the functional challenges that will be faced in the future.
