The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
We evaluate an asynchronous gossiping middleware for wireless users that propagates messages from any group member to all the other group members. This propagation can either be i...
—The typical state-of-the-art routing algorithms for delay tolerant networks are based on best next hop hill-climbing heuristics in order to achieve throughput and efficiency. T...
Josep M. Pujol, Alberto Lopez Toledo, Pablo Rodrig...
We introduce a study of position auctions, with an explicit modeling of user navigation through ads. We refer to our model as the PPA model, since it is most applicable in the con...