Indatawarehousingapplications,numerousOLAP queries involve the processing of holistic aggregators such as computing the "top n," median, quantiles, etc. In this paper, we...
: The emerging trend towards seamless monitoring of all business processes via comprehensive sensor networks – in particular RFID readers – creates new data management challeng...
Formal languages for probabilistic modeling enable re-use, modularity, and descriptive clarity, and can foster generic inference techniques. We introduce Church, a universal langu...
Noah Goodman, Vikash K. Mansinghka, Daniel M. Roy,...
This paper presents a novel opinion mining research problem, which is called Contrastive Opinion Modeling (COM). Given any query topic and a set of text collections from multiple ...
We analyze the performance of protocols for load balancing in distributed systems based on no-regret algorithms from online learning theory. These protocols treat load balancing a...