Let be a finite, ordered alphabet, and consider a string x = x1x2 . . . xn n . A secondary index for x answers alphabet range queries of the form: Given a range [al, ar] , retu...
Three-screen services provide the right solution for consumers to access rich multimedia resources by any device, anytime and anywhere. In this paper, we describe a prototype syst...
Zhu Liu, David C. Gibbon, Harris Drucker, Andrea B...
In this paper, we describe the TIMBER XML database system implemented at University of Michigan. TIMBER was one of the first native XML database systems, designed from the ground ...
Recommender systems learn about user preferences over time, automatically finding things of similar interest. This reduces the burden of creating explicit queries. Recommender sys...
Periodic data backup is a system administration requirement that has changed as wireless machines have altered the fundamental structure of networks. These changes necessitate a c...
Gregory Pluta, Larry Brumbaugh, William Yurcik, Jo...