— In location-based, mobile continual query (CQ) systems, two key measures of quality of service (QoS) are: freshness and accuracy. To achieve freshness, the CQ server must perfo...
A large number of web pages contain data structured in the form of “lists”. Many such lists can be further split into multi-column tables, which can then be used in more seman...
In this work, we study the notion of competing campaigns in a social network. By modeling the spread of influence in the presence of competing campaigns, we provide necessary too...
Many real-life graphs such as social networks and peer-topeer networks capture the relationships among the nodes by using trust scores to label the edges. Important usage of such ...
Bucket testing, also known as A/B testing, is a practice that is widely used by on-line sites with large audiences: in a simple version of the methodology, one evaluates a new fea...