Web search logs contain extremely sensitive data, as evidenced by the recent AOL incident. However, storing and analyzing search logs can be very useful for many purposes (i.e. in...
Conventional research on similarity search focuses on measuring the similarity between objects with the same type. However, in many real-world applications, we need to measure the...
Chuan Shi, Xiangnan Kong, Philip S. Yu, Sihong Xie...
Hadoop has become a critical component in today’s cloud environment. Ensuring good performance for Hadoop is paramount for the wide-range of applications built on top of it. In ...
This paper addresses the problem of automated advice provision in settings that involve repeated interactions between people and computer agents. This problem arises in many real ...
The study of transportability aims to identify conditions under which causal information learned from experiments can be reused in a different environment where only passive obser...