We consider the problem of efficiently computing weighted proximity best-joins over multiple lists, with applications in information retrieval and extraction. We are given a multi-...
AnHai Doan, Haixun Wang, Hao He, Jun Yang 0001, Ri...
User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
We develop a compact and efficient reachability labeling scheme for answering provenance queries on workflow runs that conform to a given specification. Even though a workflow run...
Zhuowei Bao, Susan B. Davidson, Sanjeev Khanna, Su...
Automatically discovering common visual patterns from a collection of images is an interesting but yet challenging task, in part because it is computationally prohibiting. Althoug...
Range searching is a fundamental problem in computational geometry. The problem involves preprocessing a set of n points in Rd into a data structure, so that it is possible to det...
Sunil Arya, Guilherme Dias da Fonseca, David M. Mo...