On first glance agent technology seems more like a hostile intruder into the database world. On the other hand, the two could easily complement each other, since agents carry out ...
We are often interested to test whether a given cause has a given effect. If we cannot specify the nature of the factors involved, such tests are called model-free studies. There ...
The two dominant costs in continuous spatial query systems are the wireless communication cost for location update, and the evaluation cost for query processing. Existing works add...
This paper examines important factors for link prediction in networks and provides a general, high-performance framework for the prediction task. Link prediction in sparse network...
Ryan Lichtenwalter, Jake T. Lussier, Nitesh V. Cha...
An increasing amount of Web data is accessible only by filling out HTML forms to query an underlying data source. While this is most welcome from a user perspective (queries are e...