Abstract. In today’s global environment, the structure and presentation of information may depend on the underlying context of the user. To address this issue, in previous work w...
The MapReduce distributed programming framework is very popular, but currently lacks the optimization techniques that have been standard with relational database systems for many ...
Database caching supports declarative query processing close to the application. Using a full-fledged DBMS as cache manager, it enables the evaluation of specific project-select-...
Uncertainty in categorical data is commonplace in many applications, including data cleaning, database integration, and biological annotation. In such domains, the correct value o...
Sarvjeet Singh, Chris Mayfield, Sunil Prabhakar, R...
Relevance feedback (RF) has been extensively studied in the content-based image retrieval community. However, no commercial Web image search engines support RF because of scalabil...