Query optimizers in current database systems are designed to pick a single efficient plan for a given query based on current statistical properties of the data. However, different...
Pedro Bizarro, Shivnath Babu, David J. DeWitt, Jen...
Computational humor will be needed in interfaces, no less than other cognitive capabilities. There are many practical settings where computational humor will add value. Among them...
Future wireless networks will experience a continuous growth regarding the number of network elements with increasingly complex interrelations between the configuration of multipl...
Raphael Romeikat, Bernhard Bauer, Tobias Bandh, Ge...
A (directed) network of people connected by ratings or trust scores, and a model for propagating those trust scores, is a fundamental building block in many of today's most s...
Ramanathan V. Guha, Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan...
—The use of wireless sensor networks is rapidly growing in various types of applications that benefit from spatially distributed data collection. Some of these applications, suc...