Traditional location-based services recommend nearest objects to the user by considering their spatial proximity. However, an object not only has its distance but also has its dir...
WebFountain is a platform for very large-scale text analytics applications that allows uniform access to a wide variety of sources. It enables the deployment of a variety of docum...
Consider a database that represents the location of moving objects, such as taxi-cabs (typical query: retrieve the cabs that are currently within 1 mile of 33 Michigan Ave., Chica...
Ouri Wolfson, Sam Chamberlain, Son Dao, Liqin Jian...
Discovering associations between elements occurring in a stream is applicable in numerous applications, including predictive caching and fraud detection. These applications requir...
In recent years, new highly scalable storage systems have significantly contributed to the success of Cloud Computing. Systems like Dynamo or Bigtable have underpinned their abil...
Simon Loesing, Martin Hentschel, Tim Kraska, Donal...