Global e-Commerce and mass-outreach e-Governance programs have brought into sharp focus the need for database systems to store and manipulate text data efficiently in a suite of ...
There is growing public concern about personal data collected by both private and public sectors. People have very little control over what kinds of data are stored and how such da...
— We demonstrate ROX, a run-time optimizer of XQueries, that focuses on finding the best execution order of XPath steps and relational joins in an XQuery. The problem of join or...
Riham Abdel Kader, Peter A. Boncz, Stefan Manegold...
If all features causing heterogeneity were observed, a mixture of experts approach (Jacobs et al., 1991) is likely to be superior to using a single model. When unobserved or very n...
We present a probabilistic model-based framework for distributed learning that takes into account privacy restrictions and is applicable to scenarios where the different sites ha...