Modern query optimizers select an efficient join ordering for a physical execution plan based essentially on the average join selectivity factors among the referenced tables. In ...
This paper presents a framework for user-oriented text mining. It is then illustrated with an example of discovering knowledge from competitors’ websites. The knowledge to be di...
Researchers from the same lab often spend a considerable amount of time searching for published articles relevant to their current project. Despite having similar interests, they c...
Detection of space-time clusters is an important function in various domains (e.g., epidemiology and public health). The pioneering work on the spatial scan statistic is often use...
It is common to evaluate scheduling policies based on their mean response times. Another important, but sometimes opposing, performance metric is a scheduling policy’s fairness....