We apply a new active learning formulation to the problem of learning medical concepts from unstructured text. The new formulation is based on maximizing the mutual information th...
Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
Abstract. Event processing engines are used in diverse mission-critical scenarios such as fraud detection, traffic monitoring, or intensive care units. However, these scenarios hav...
Marcelo R. N. Mendes, Pedro Bizarro, Paulo Marques
The DWS (Data Warehouse Striping) technique is a round-robin data partitioning approach especially designed for distributed data warehousing environments. In DWS the fact tables ar...
Jorge Vieira, Marco Vieira, Marco Costa, Henrique ...
Intuitively, aggressive work sharing among concurrent queries in a database system should always improve performance by eliminating redundant computation or data accesses. We show...
Ryan Johnson, Nikos Hardavellas, Ippokratis Pandis...