Joins are essential for many data analysis tasks, but are not supported directly by the MapReduce paradigm. While there has been progress on equi-joins, implementation of join alg...
Most of today's structured data is stored in relational databases. Such a database consists of multiple relations which are linked together conceptually via entity-relationsh...
The bidirectional texture function (BTF) describes rough texture appearance variations due to varying illumination and viewing conditions. Such a function consists of thousands of ...
—“Big Data” in map-reduce (M-R) clusters is often fundamentally temporal in nature, as are many analytics tasks over such data. For instance, display advertising uses Behavio...
Badrish Chandramouli, Jonathan Goldstein, Songyun ...
The disparity between data collected in rural and urban counties is often detrimental in the appropriate analysis of cancer care statistics. Low counts drastically affect the inci...
Ross Maciejewski, Travis Drake, Stephen Rudolph, A...