A continuous top-k query retrieves the k most preferred objects in a data stream according to a given preference function. These queries are important for a broad spectrum of appl...
Avani Shastri, Di Yang, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Mat...
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (“MTurk”) service allows users to post short tasks (“HITs”) that other users can receive a small amount of money for completing. Common tasks on...
Adam Marcus 0002, Eugene Wu 0002, Samuel Madden, R...
The information resources on the Web are vast, but much of the Web is based on a browsing paradigm that requires someone to actively seek information. Instead, one would like to h...
Background: With advances in high-throughput genomics and proteomics, it is challenging for biologists to deal with large data files and to map their data to annotations in public...
The automatic extraction of information from unstructured sources has opened up new avenues for querying, organizing, and analyzing data by drawing upon the clean semantics of str...