—The standard way to scale a distributed OLTP DBMS is to horizontally partition data across several nodes. Ideally, this results in each query/transaction being executed at just ...
Aubrey Tatarowicz, Carlo Curino, Evan P. C. Jones,...
Online social networks (OSNs) are popular collaboration and communication tools for millions of users and their friends. Unfortunately, in the wrong hands, they are also effective...
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Abstract: Social virtual worlds such as Second Life are digital representations of the real world where human-controlled avatars evolve and interact through social activities. Unde...
As organizations scale up, their collective knowledge increases, and the potential for serendipitous collaboration between members grows dramatically. However, finding people wit...
One of the core tasks in social network analysis is to predict the formation of links (i.e. various types of relationships) over time. Previous research has generally represented ...