The development of applications involving multi-dimensional data sets on top of a RDBMS raises several difficulties that are not directly related to the scientific problem being ...
Roberto Cornacchia, Alex van Ballegooij, Arjen P. ...
We describe a design pattern for writing programs that traverse data structures built from rich mutually-recursive data types. Such programs often have a great deal of “boilerpl...
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
An approximate search query on a collection of strings finds those strings in the collection that are similar to a given query string, where similarity is defined using a given si...
Sponsored search is a multi-billion dollar business that generates most of the revenue for search engines. Predicting the probability that users click on ads is crucial to sponsor...