The Internet has changed the way people look for information. Users now expect the answers to their questions to be available through a simple web search. Web search engines are i...
Computing statistical information on probabilistic data has attracted a lot of attention recently, as the data generated from a wide range of data sources are inherently fuzzy or ...
All pivot-based algorithms for similarity search use a set of reference points called pivots. The pivot-based search algorithm precomputes some distances to these reference points...
Benjamin Bustos, Oscar Pedreira, Nieves R. Brisabo...
Recent work on distributed, in-network aggregation assumes a benign population of participants. Unfortunately, modern distributed systems are plagued by malicious participants. In...
Minos N. Garofalakis, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Petro...
Abstract. Given a directed graph G = (V, E) and an integer k 1, a ktransitive-closure-spanner (k-TC-spanner) of G is a directed graph H = (V, EH ) that has (1) the same transitive...
Arnab Bhattacharyya, Elena Grigorescu, Madhav Jha,...