Abstract. As low-level architectural support for context-aware computing matures, we are ready to explore more general and powerful means of accessing context data. Information req...
Jeffrey Heer, Alan Newberger, Chris Beckmann, Jaso...
Annotated speech corpora are databases consisting of signal data along with time-aligned symbolic ‘transcriptions’. Such databases are typically multidimensional, heterogeneou...
Scheduling query execution plans is a particularly complex problem in hierarchical parallel systems, where each site consists of a collection of local time-shared (e.g., CPU(s) or...
Our experiments in the Robust track this year focused on predicting query difficulty and using this prediction for improving information retrieval. We developed two prediction alg...
Elad Yom-Tov, Shai Fine, David Carmel, Adam Darlow...
Existing estimation approaches for spatial databases often rely on the assumption that data distribution in a small region is uniform, which seldom holds in practice. Moreover, the...