Studies find that at least 20% of web queries have local intent; and the fraction of queries with local intent that originate from mobile properties may be twice as high. The eme...
Petros Venetis, Hector Gonzalez, Christian S. Jens...
The challenge of peer-to-peer computing goes beyond simple file sharing. In the DBGlobe project, we view the multitude of peers carrying data and services as a superdatabase. Our ...
We address the problem of scalable distributed reasoning, proposing a technique for materialising the closure of an RDF graph based on MapReduce. We have implemented our approach o...
Jacopo Urbani, Spyros Kotoulas, Eyal Oren, Frank v...
Sponsored search is one of the major sources of revenue for search engines on the World Wide Web. It has been observed that while showing ads for every query maximizes shortterm r...
Sandeep Pandey, Kunal Punera, Marcus Fontoura, Van...
Many data-driven social and Web applications involve collaboration and coordination. The vision of declarative data-driven coordination (D3C), proposed in [9], is to support coord...