: Information-filtering systems constitute a critical component of modern information-seeking applications. As the number of users grows and the amount of information available bec...
There has been a significant amount of excitement and recent work on column-oriented database systems ("column-stores"). These database systems have been shown to perfor...
In many sensing applications we must continuously gather information to provide a good estimate of the state of the environment at every point in time. A robot may tour an environ...
Alexandra Meliou, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin,...
The popularity of location-based services and the need to do real-time processing on them has led to an interest in performing queries on transportation networks, such as finding s...
Recent advance in scalable video coding (SVC) makes it possible for users to receive the same video with different qualities. To adopt SVC in P2P streaming, two key design questio...