User attention is a scarce resource, and users are susceptible to interruption overload. Systems do not reason about the effects of interrupting a user during a task sequence. In ...
In this paper, we present CONTRAlign, an extensible and fully automatic framework for parameter learning and protein pairwise sequence alignment using pair conditional random field...
Estimating the cardinality (i.e. number of distinct elements) of an arbitrary set expression defined over multiple distributed streams is one of the most fundamental queries of in...
Searching for all occurrences of a twig pattern in an XML document is an important operation in XML query processing. Recently a holistic method TwigStack [2] has been proposed. T...
The education industry has a very poor record of productivity gains. In this brief article, I outline some of the ways the teaching of a college course in database systems could b...