Scheduling data processing workflows (dataflows) on the cloud is a very complex and challenging task. It is essentially an optimization problem, very similar to query optimizati...
Herald Kllapi, Eva Sitaridi, Manolis M. Tsangaris,...
Complex social and information network search becomes important with a variety of applications. In the core of these applications, lies a common and critical problem: Given a labe...
Arijit Khan, Nan Li, Xifeng Yan, Ziyu Guan, Supriy...
Privacy becomes a more and more serious concern in applications involving microdata. Recently, efficient anonymization has attracted much research work. Most of the previous metho...
Jian Xu, Wei Wang 0009, Jian Pei, Xiaoyuan Wang, B...
Web search engines are often implemented as centralized systems. Designing and implementing a Web search engine in a distributed environment is a challenging engineering task that...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio J...
Abstract. In knowledge bases, the open world assumption and the ability to express variables may lead to an answer redundancy problem. This problem occurs when the returned answers...