We consider the challenge of preference elicitation in systems that help users discover the most desirable item(s) within a given database. Past work on preference elicitation foc...
We present a new approach to preconditioning for very large, sparse, non-symmetric, linear systems. We explicitly compute an approximate inverse to our original matrix that can be...
This paper presents the architecture and characteristics of a memory database intended to be used as a cache engine for web applications. Primary goals of this database are speed a...
Enabling the user of a graph drawing system to preserve the mental map between two different layouts of a graph is a major problem. In this paper we present methods that smoothly ...
Abstract. As mobility permeates into todays computing and communication arena, we envision application infrastructures that will increasingly rely on mobile technologies. Tradition...