Tracking new topics, ideas, and "memes" across the Web has been an issue of considerable interest. Recent work has developed methods for tracking topic shifts over long ...
—The nature of the Blogosphere determines that the majority of bloggers are only connected with a small number of fellow bloggers, and similar bloggers can be largely disconnecte...
Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Shankara B. Subramanya, J...
We present an approach to dealing with skew in parallel joins in database systems. Our approach is easily implementable within current parallel DBMS, and performs well on skewed d...
David J. DeWitt, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Donovan A. S...
Deep web search requires a transformation between search keywords and semantically described and well-formed data structures. We approached this problem in our "In the Web of ...
Abstract—This paper presents the GeoFeed system; a locationaware news feed system that provides a new platform for its users to get spatially related message updates from either ...