In this paper we explore database segmentation in the context of a column-store DBMS targeted at a scientific database. We present a novel hardware- and scheme-oblivious segmentati...
Developments in semantic search technology have motivated the need for efficient and scalable entity annotation techniques. We demonstrate RAD: a tool for Rapid Annotator Developme...
This paper presents a surprising result: changing a seemingly innocuous aspect of an experimental setup can cause a systems researcher to draw wrong conclusions from an experiment...
Clustering validation is a long standing challenge in the clustering literature. While many validation measures have been developed for evaluating the performance of clustering al...
We have recently begun to see hardware support for the tabletop user interface, offering a number of new ways for humans to interact with computers. Tabletops offer great potentia...