Big data is the tar sands of the data world: vast reserves of raw gritty data whose valuable information content can only be extracted at great cost. MapReduce is a popular parall...
Blog post opinion retrieval is the problem of identifying posts which express an opinion about a particular topic. Usually the problem is solved using a 3 step process in which rel...
This paper addresses a fundamental and challenging problem with broad applications: efficient processing of region-based promotion queries, i.e., to discover the top-k most inter...
— Zadeh proposed the paradigm of computing with words (CWW). We have proposed a CWW architecture for making subjective judgments, called a Perceptual Computer (PerC). Because wor...
The growing sophistication and diversity of malicious activity in the Internet presents a serious challenge for network security analysts. In this paper, we describe our efforts t...
Bee-Chung Chen, Vinod Yegneswaran, Paul Barford, R...