Sampling is a popular method of data collection when it is impossible or too costly to reach the entire population. For example, television show ratings in the United States are g...
In online content voting networks, aggregate user activities (e.g., submitting and rating content) make high-quality content thrive through the unprecedented scale, high dynamics ...
Column-stores gained popularity as a promising physical design alternative. Each attribute of a relation is physically stored as a separate column allowing queries to load only th...
Stratos Idreos, Martin L. Kersten, Stefan Manegold
We introduce Torsk, a structured peer-to-peer low-latency anonymity protocol. Torsk is designed as an interoperable replacement for the relay selection and directory service of th...
Jon McLachlan, Andrew Tran, Nicholas Hopper, Yongd...
There has been a significant increase in interest and participation in social networking websites recently. For many users, social networks are indispensable tools for sharing pe...