User-contributed tags have shown promise as a means of indexing multimedia collections by harnessing the combined efforts and enthusiasm of online communities. But tags are only o...
We investigate the trade off between investing effort in improving the features of a research environment that increases productivity and investing such effort in actually conduct...
Juan C. Quiroz, Anil Shankar, Sergiu M. Dascalu, S...
In electronic commerce, a satisfying buyer experience is a key competitive element. We show new techniques for better adapting interaction with an electronic catalog system to act...
This tutorial presents an overview of the data management issues faced by computer games today. While many games do not use databases directly, they still have to process large am...
Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Christoph Koch, B...
Finding sparse cuts is an important tool for analyzing large graphs that arise in practice, such as the web graph, online social communities, and VLSI circuits. When dealing with s...
Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Rina Panigra...