This paper introduces RankSQL, a system that provides a systematic and principled framework to support efficient evaluations of ranking (top-k) queries in relational database syst...
Chengkai Li, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Ihab F. Ilyas...
Map-Reduce is a programming model that enables easy development of scalable parallel applications to process vast amounts of data on large clusters of commodity machines. Through ...
Hung-chih Yang, Ali Dasdan, Ruey-Lung Hsiao, Dougl...
Complex software systems typically involve features like time, concurrency and probability, where probabilistic computations play an increasing role. It is challenging to formaliz...
Huibiao Zhu, Shengchao Qin, Jifeng He, Jonathan P....
This paper presents a new technique for the perception of activities using statistical description of spatio-temporal properties. With this approach, the probability of an activit...
Collaborative filtering (CF) and contentbased filtering (CBF) have widely been used in information filtering applications, both approaches having their individual strengths and...
Kai Yu, Anton Schwaighofer, Volker Tresp, Wei-Ying...