Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...
Computer systems often fail due to many factors such as software bugs or administrator errors. Diagnosing such production run failures is an important but challenging task since i...
Ding Yuan, Haohui Mai, Weiwei Xiong, Lin Tan, Yuan...
In order to help users navigate an image search system, one could provide explicit information on a small set of images as to which of them are relevant or not to their task. Thes...
When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
Stream processing applications such as algorithmic trading, MPEG processing, and web content analysis are ubiquitous and essential to business and entertainment. Language designers...