This work investigates personalized social search based on the user’s social relations – search results are re-ranked according to their relations with individuals in the user...
David Carmel, Naama Zwerdling, Ido Guy, Shila Ofek...
P2P-TV systems distribute live streaming contents by organizing the information flow in small chunks that are exchanged among peers. Different strategies can be implemented at th...
Ana Paula Couto da Silva, Emilio Leonardi, Marco M...
: In an extensible database system, evaluation of a query plan is done in cooperation between a collection of operator implementation functions and a component of the DBMS that we ...
Experimental computer systems research typically ignores the end-user, modeling him, if at all, in overly simple ways. We argue that this (1) results in inadequate performance eva...
Peter A. Dinda, Gokhan Memik, Robert P. Dick, Bin ...
Spatial join is an important yet costly operation in spatial databases. In order to speed up the execution of a spatial join, the input tables are often indexed based on their spa...