The growing complexity of hardware optimizations employed by multiprocessors leads to subtle distinctions among allowed and disallowed behaviors, posing challenges in specifying th...
Sela Mador-Haim, Luc Maranget, Susmit Sarkar, Kayv...
We explore the problem of assigning heterogeneous tasks to workers with different, unknown skill sets in crowdsourcing markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk. We first formalize ...
Essentially all data mining algorithms assume that the datagenerating process is independent of the data miner's activities. However, in many domains, including spam detectio...
Nilesh N. Dalvi, Pedro Domingos, Mausam, Sumit K. ...
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
Rank-aware query processing has become essential for many applications that return to the user only the top-k objects based on the individual user's preferences. Top-k queries...