In large data warehousing environments, it is often advantageous to provide fast, approximate answers to complex aggregate queries based on statistical summaries of the full data....
Swarup Acharya, Phillip B. Gibbons, Viswanath Poos...
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (“MTurk”) service allows users to post short tasks (“HITs”) that other users can receive a small amount of money for completing. Common tasks on...
Adam Marcus 0002, Eugene Wu 0002, Samuel Madden, R...
As computer systems are essential components of many critical commercial services, the need for secure online transactions is now becoming evident. The demand for such application...
Feifei Li, Ke Yi, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George ...
Context-awareness has become a desired key feature of today’s mobile systems, yet, its realization still remains a challenge. On the one hand, mobile computing provides great po...
Lukasz Juszczyk, Harald Psaier, Atif Manzoor, Scha...
In existing relational database systems, processing of group-by and computation of aggregate functions are always postponed until all joins are performed. In this paper, we presen...