Instrumentation is commonly used to track application behavior: to collect program profiles; to monitor component health and performance; to aid in component testing; and more. P...
Marina Biberstein, Vugranam C. Sreedhar, Bilha Men...
The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
While uniprocessor garbage collection is relatively well understood, experience with collectors for large multiprocessor servers is limited and it is unknown which techniques best ...
C. Richard Attanasio, David F. Bacon, Anthony Cocc...
We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...
In the database community, work on information extraction (IE) has centered on two themes: how to effectively manage IE tasks, and how to manage the uncertainties that arise in th...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Garo...