Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the unde...
Disk I/O is a major bottleneck for query processing in database applications. This bottleneck is especially a problem for temporal databases because of their large size. Reduction...
People take more and more photos at different time and different events, however, these photos are often put into one giant folder and they are seldom annotated or organized. As t...
Massive amounts of useful data are stored and processed in ad hoc formats for which common tools like parsers, printers, query engines and format converters are not readily availa...
Artem Gleyzer, David Walker, Kathleen Fisher, Mary...
We describe DEIMOS, a system that automatically discovers and models new sources of information. The system exploits four core technologies developed by our group that makes an en...