We study an extension of the "standard" learning models to settings where observing the value of an attribute has an associated cost (which might be different for differ...
The query models of the recent generation of very large scale distributed (VLSD) shared-nothing data storage systems, including our own PNUTS and others (e.g. BigTable, Dynamo, Ca...
Parag Agrawal, Adam Silberstein, Brian F. Cooper, ...
Ranking is an important property that needs to be fully supported by current relational query engines. Recently, several rank-join query operators have been proposed based on rank...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey ...
The advent of XML as a universal exchange format, and of Web services as a basis for distributed computing, has fostered the apparition of a new class of documents: dynamic XML do...
There has been increasing interest in the problem of building accurate data mining models over aggregate data, while protecting privacy at the level of individual records. One app...
Alexandre V. Evfimievski, Johannes Gehrke, Ramakri...