— The web today is increasingly characterized by social and real-time signals, which we believe represent two frontiers in information retrieval. In this paper, we present Earlyb...
Michael Busch, Krishna Gade, Brian Larson, Patrick...
—Many companies now routinely run massive data analysis jobs – expressed in some scripting language – on large clusters of low-end servers. Many analysis scripts are complex ...
Abstract—Relational database management systems are general in the sense that they can handle arbitrary schemas, queries, and modifications; this generality is implemented using...
—Traditional clustering algorithms identify just a single clustering of the data. Today’s complex data, however, allow multiple interpretations leading to several valid groupin...
Abstract—BitTorrent has been the most popular P2P (Peer-toPeer) paradigm during recent years. Built upon great intuition, the piece-selection and neighbor-selection modules roote...