—Document networks, i.e., networks associated with text information, are becoming increasingly popular due to the ubiquity of Web documents, blogs, and various kinds of online da...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
Abstract. Grid software often unfortunately requires significant changes in existing infrastructure, both in terms of policy and mechanism, instead of accommodating and leveraging ...
Traditionally hypertexts have been limited in size by the manual effort required to create hypertext links. In addition, large hyper–linked collections may overwhelm users with ...
This study investigates how consumers evaluate a product when they read conflicting online consumer reviews of evaluations from previous consumers. If consumers are rational, as i...