The conditional branch has long been considered an expensive operation. The relative cost of conditional branches has increased as recently designed machines are now relying on de...
Many data-intensive applications dynamically construct queries in response to client requests and execute them. Java servlets, e.g., can create string representations of SQL queri...
Online product reviews are becoming increasingly available, and are being used more and more frequently by consumers in order to choose among competing products. Tools that rank co...
Stefano Baccianella, Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebast...
The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm promises to enable software vendors to compose software systems using services purchased from various suppliers. In this paper, we...
Jan Christian Lang, Thomas Widjaja, Peter Buxmann,...
A common task of recommender systems is to improve customer experience through personalized recommendations based on prior implicit feedback. These systems passively track differe...