To improve the search results for socially-connect users, we propose a ranking framework, Social Network Document Rank (SNDocRank). This framework considers both document contents...
Liang Gou, Hung-Hsuan Chen, Jung-Hyun Kim, Xiaolon...
Abstract. Rely-guarantee is a well-established approach to reasoning about concurrent programs that use parallel composition. However, parallel composition is not how concurrency i...
Mike Dodds, Xinyu Feng, Matthew J. Parkinson, Vikt...
Abstract. Sharing of structured data in decentralized environments is a challenging problem, especially in the absence of a global schema. Social network structures map network lin...
Verena Kantere, Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Timos K. Sell...
In this paper, we propose and evaluate the performance of a multicast technique, called controlled CIWP, for supplying video-on-demand services. Similar to batching schemes, contr...
Traditional database query formulation is intensional: at the level of schemas, table and column names. Previous work has shown that filters can be created using a query paradigm ...