The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
The internal libraries of Linux are evolving rapidly, to address new requirements and improve performance. These evolutions, however, entail a massive problem of collateral evolut...
We show that recursive programs where variables range over finite domains can be effectively and efficiently analyzed by describing the analysis algorithm using a formula in a ...
Salvatore La Torre, Parthasarathy Madhusudan, Genn...
In this paper we present an approach to analyzing the social behaviors that occur in a typical office space. We describe a system consisting of over 200 motion sensors connected ...
Christopher Richard Wren, Yuri A. Ivanov, Ishwinde...
Accurately and efficiently estimating the number of distinct values for some attribute(s) or sets of attributes in a data set is of critical importance to many database operation...