Internet search companies sell advertisement slots based on users’ search queries via an auction. Advertisers have to solve a complex optimization problem of how to place bids o...
Caching is a standard solution to the problem of insufcient bandwidth caused by the rapid increase of information circulation across the Internet. Cache consistency mechanisms are...
Many end user programming tools such as spreadsheets and databases offer poor support for representing a level of abstraction that is intuitive to users. For example, users must w...
We examine the problem of large scale nearest neighbor search in high dimensional spaces and propose a new approach based on the close relationship between nearest neighbor search...
In this paper, we describe a framework for an object-oriented modeling of meta information and its use for the integration of heterogeneous databases with the goal of their intero...
Daniel A. Keim, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Andreas Mieths...