Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...
Continuous queries are used to monitor changes to time varying data and to provide results useful for online decision making. Typically a user desires to obtain the value of some ...
We consider the problem of estimating occurrence rates of rare events for extremely sparse data, using pre-existing hierarchies to perform inference at multiple resolutions. In pa...
Deepak Agarwal, Andrei Z. Broder, Deepayan Chakrab...
Order-preserving submatrixes (OPSMs) have been accepted as a biologically meaningful subspace cluster model, capturing the general tendency of gene expressions across a subset of ...
Byron J. Gao, Obi L. Griffith, Martin Ester, Steve...
Skewed distributions appear very often in practice. Unfortunately, the traditional Zipf distribution often fails to model them well. In this paper, we propose a new probability di...