We present an automatic skew mitigation approach for userdefined MapReduce programs and present SkewTune, a system that implements this approach as a drop-in replacement for an e...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Je...
Recognizing the location and orientation of a mobile device from captured images is a promising application of image retrieval algorithms. Matching the query images to an existing...
Georg Schroth, Anas Al-Nuaimi, Robert Huitl, Flori...
Graphs are widely used to model real world objects and their relationships, and large graph datasets are common in many application domains. To understand the underlying character...
Yuanyuan Tian, Richard A. Hankins, Jignesh M. Pate...
e by placing terms in an abstract ‘information space’ based on their occurrences in text corpora, and then allowing a user to visualize local regions of this information space....
Most of recommender systems try to find items that are most relevant to the older choices of a given user. Here we focus on the "surprise me" query: A user may be bored ...