Information networks are ubiquitous in many applications and analysis on such networks has attracted significant attention in the academic communities. One of the most important ...
A plethora of data sources contain data entities that could be ordered according to a variety of attributes associated with the entities. Such orderings result effectively in a ra...
This paper investigates the problem of incremental joins of multiple ranked data sets when the join condition is a list of arbitrary user-defined predicates on the input tuples. ...
Apostol Natsev, Yuan-Chi Chang, John R. Smith, Chu...
A recommender system must be able to suggest items that are likely to be preferred by the user. In most systems, the degree of preference is represented by a rating score. Given a...
— In publish/subscribe systems, users express their interests in specific items of information and get notified when relevant data items are produced. Such systems allow users ...