Many techniques for improving search result quality have been proposed. Typically, these techniques increase average effectiveness by devising advanced ranking features and/or by...
Lidan Wang, Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompso...
Many sensor network applications monitor continuous phenomena by sampling, and fit time-varying models that capture the phenomena's behaviors. We introduce Pulse, a framework...
One of the goals of cleaning an inconsistent database is to remove conflicts between tuples. Typically, the user specifies how the conflicts should be resolved. Sometimes this spec...
Slawomir Staworko, Jan Chomicki, Jerzy Marcinkowsk...
Privacy is a serious concern when microdata need to be released for ad hoc analyses. The privacy goals of existing privacy protection approaches (e.g., -anonymity and -diversity) ...
Qing Zhang, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, Ting Y...
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is currently attracting enormous attention. In P2P systems a very large number of autonomous computing nodes (the peers) pool together their ...