Top-k pairs queries have received significant attention by the research community. k-closest pairs queries, k-furthest pairs queries and their variants are among the most well stu...
Zhitao Shen, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, We...
—Virtualized cloud-based services can take advantage of statistical multiplexing across applications to yield significant cost savings to the operator. However, achieving simila...
This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang
Organizations are under increasing scrutiny to document their compliance to regulatory requirements. To this end, they have to formally document their operating procedures to supp...
Online advertising is increasingly becoming more performance oriented, where the decision to show an advertisement to a user is made based on the user’s propensity to respond to...