This paper presents HomeViews, a peer-to-peer middleware system for building personal data management applications. HomeViews provides abstractions and services for data organizat...
Roxana Geambasu, Magdalena Balazinska, Steven D. G...
In this paper, we study the problem of learning block classification models to estimate block functions. We distinguish general models, which are learned across multiple sites, an...
Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in tra...
This paper studies the problem of discovering and comparing geographical topics from GPS-associated documents. GPSassociated documents become popular with the pervasiveness of loc...
Web object is defined to represent any meaningful object embedded in web pages (e.g. images, music) or pointed to by hyperlinks (e.g. downloadable files). Users usually search for...