Joins are essential for many data analysis tasks, but are not supported directly by the MapReduce paradigm. While there has been progress on equi-joins, implementation of join alg...
Abstract. Data warehouse architectural choices and optimization techniques are critical to decision support query performance. To facilitate these choices, the performance of the d...
Recent research has made it possible to build information agents that retrieve and integrate information from the World Wide Web. Although there now exist solutions for modeling W...
Greg Barish, Dan DiPasquo, Craig A. Knoblock, Stev...
Abstract. This paper presents a novel approach to analyze the appearance of human motions with a simple model i.e. mapping the motions using a virtual marionette model. The approac...
Two approaches are proposed for the design of tied-mixture hidden Markov models (TMHMM). One approach improves parameter sharing via partial tying of TMHMM states. To facilitate ty...