We study the efficient evaluation of top-k queries over data items, where the score of each item is dynamically computed by applying an item-specific function whose parameter valu...
Lin Guo, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Jay...
Several activities in service oriented computing can benefit from knowing ahead of time future properties of a given service composition. In this paper we focus on how statically i...
Dragan Ivanovic, Manuel Carro, Manuel V. Hermenegi...
A new coordination language for distributed data-parallel programs is presented, call SNet. The intention of SNet is to introduce advanced structuring techniques into a coordinatio...
Clemens Grelck, Sven-Bodo Scholz, Alexander V. Sha...
Stationarity is often an unrealistic prior assumption for Gaussian process regression. One solution is to predefine an explicit nonstationary covariance function, but such covaria...
Background: Expression array data are used to predict biological functions of uncharacterized genes by comparing their expression profiles to those of characterized genes. While b...