Large-scale, user-facing applications are increasingly moving from relational databases to distributed key/value stores for high-request-rate, low-latency workloads. Often, this m...
Michael Armbrust, Nick Lanham, Stephen Tu, Armando...
This paper presents our ongoing study of the current/future impact of social bookmarks (or social tags) on information retrieval (IR). Our main research question asked in the pres...
We consider in this paper a popular class of recommender systems that are based on Collaborative Filtering (CF for short). CF is the process of predicting customer ratings to item...
For documents with complex or atypical annotations, multihierarchical structures play the role of the document tree in traditional XML documents. We define a model of overlapping...
We introduce and study concurrent One-Way Protocols in social networks. The model is motivated by the rise of online social networks and the fast development of automation feature...