— The ubiquity of mobile devices has led to a rising demand for location-based services and applications. A major part of these services is based on the location-detection capabi...
Since the 1970’s, database systems have been “compute-centric”. When a computation needs the data, it requests the data, and the data are pulled through the system. We belie...
Subi Arumugam, Alin Dobra, Christopher M. Jermaine...
This paper presents a framework for data modeling ntic abstraction of image/video data. The framework is based on spatio-temporalinformation associated with salient objects in an ...
Young Francis Day, Serhan Dagtas, Mitsutoshi Iino,...
We present a technique for computing approximately optimal solutions to stochastic resource allocation problems modeled as Markov decision processes (MDPs). We exploit two key pro...
Nicolas Meuleau, Milos Hauskrecht, Kee-Eung Kim, L...
Recently, several research efforts have addressed answering skyline queries efficiently over large datasets. However, this research lacks methods to compute these queries over un...
Mohamed E. Khalefa, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Justin J. L...