The skyline query returns the most interesting tuples according to a set of explicitly defined preferences among attribute values. This work relaxes this requirement, and allows us...
—When manufacturing nano-devices, defects are a certainty and reliability becomes a critical issue. Until now, the most pervasive methods used to address reliability, involve inj...
In modern systems, developers are often unable to modify the underlying operating system. To build services in such an environment, we advocate the use of gray-box techniques. Whe...
Numerous techniques exist to help users automate repetitive tasks; however, none of these methods fully support enduser creation, use, and modification of the learned tasks. We pr...
Aaron Spaulding, Jim Blythe, Will Haines, Melinda ...
A semantically meaningful image hierarchy can ease the human effort in organizing thousands and millions of pictures (e.g., personal albums), and help to improve performance of en...
Li-Jia Li, Chong Wang, Yongwhan Lim, David Blei, L...