Both human users and crawlers face the problem of finding good start pages to explore some topic. We show how to assist in qualifying pages as start nodes by link-based ranking al...
Given their simple nature, the success of keyword based retrieval systems is astonishing. Although these methods seemingly only process words (and their word counts), they rely on...
We propose a class of constraints, referred to as conditional functional dependencies (CFDs), and study their applications in data cleaning. In contrast to traditional functional ...
Philip Bohannon, Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Xibei ...
The querying and analysis of data streams has been a topic of much recent interest, motivated by applications from the fields of networking, web usage analysis, sensor instrumenta...
Static analyses provide the semantic foundation for tools ranging from optimizing compilers to refactoring browsers and advanced debuggers. Unfortunately, developing new analysis ...