A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different site...
We describe METRICS, a system to recover design productivity via new infrastructure for design process optimization. METRICS seeks to treat system design and implementation as a s...
Stephen Fenstermaker, David George, Andrew B. Kahn...
The number of specialized databases in molecular biology is growing fast, as is the availability of molecular data. These trends necessitate the development of automatic methods fo...
The web contains lots of interesting factual information about entities, such as celebrities, movies or products. This paper describes a robust bootstrapping approach to corrobora...
—On participatory Websites, users provide opinions about products, with both overall ratings and textual reviews. In this paper, we propose an approach to accurately estimate fea...
Chong Long, Jie Zhang, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu, ...