An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
A fundamental problem in data management is to draw a sample of a large data set, for approximate query answering, selectivity estimation, and query planning. With large, streamin...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
We consider the problem of distributing “live” streaming media content to a potentially large and highly dynamic population of hosts. Peer-to-peer content distribution is attr...
Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Helen J. Wang, Philip A. C...
There are many applications that demand large quantities of natural looking motion. It is difficult to synthesize motion that looks natural, particularly when it is people who mus...
Optimization of join queries based on average selectivities is suboptimal in highly correlated databases. In such databases, relations are naturally divided into partitions, each ...
Kostas Tzoumas, Amol Deshpande, Christian S. Jense...