Web search engines help users find useful information on the WWW. However, when the same query is submitted by different users, typical search engines return the same result regar...
We investigate the problem of how to evaluate, fast and efficiently, classes of optimal route queries on a massive graph in a unified framework. To evaluate a route query effectiv...
Many recommendation and retrieval tasks can be represented as proximity queries on a labeled directed graph, with typed nodes representing documents, terms, and metadata, and labe...
—In recent years, there has been a move toward supporting the human element of Web search beyond a simple query box and a ranked list of search results. In this paper, we present...
Collaborative web applications such as Facebook, Flickr and Yelp present new challenges for storing and querying large amounts of data. As users and developers are focused more on...
Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, David A. Patterson,...