Social media sites (e.g., Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook) are a popular distribution outlet for users looking to share their experiences and interests on the Web. These sites host ...
Background: Recent advances in Web and information technologies with the increasing decentralization of organizational structures have resulted in massive amounts of information r...
The original PageRank algorithm for improving the ranking of search-query results computes a single vector, using the link structure of the Web, to capture the relative "impor...
Traditional database query formulation is intensional: at the level of schemas, table and column names. Previous work has shown that filters can be created using a query paradigm ...
Managing large-scale time series databases has attracted significant attention in the database community recently. Related fundamental problems such as dimensionality reduction, tr...