Today’s Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as Ajax, Flex, or Silverlight, are designed around the client-server paradigm and cannot easily take advantage of repli...
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...
We consider the problem of indexing high-dimensional data for answering (approximate) similarity-search queries. Similarity indexes prove to be important in a wide variety of sett...
This paper takes a renewed look at the problem of managing intermediate data that is generated during dataflow computations (e.g., MapReduce, Pig, Dryad, etc.) within clouds. We d...
Steven Y. Ko, Imranul Hoque, Brian Cho, Indranil G...