Successfully structuring information in databases, OLAP cubes, and XML is a crucial element in managing data nowadays. However this process brought new challenges to usability. It...
Enforced hill-climbing is an effective deterministic hillclimbing technique that deals with local optima using breadth-first search (a process called "basin flooding"). ...
Today's processors provide a rich source of statistical information on application execution through hardware counters. In this paper, we explore the utilization of these sta...
Kai Shen, Ming Zhong, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Chuanpeng...
SALSA is a link-based ranking algorithm that takes the result set of a query as input, extends the set to include additional neighboring documents in the web graph, and performs a...
The typical mode for querying in an image content-based information system is query-by-example, which allows the user to provide an image as a query and to search for similar imag...