In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Cost-based query optimizers need to estimate the selectivity of conjunctive predicates when comparing alternative query execution plans. To this end, advanced optimizers use multi...
Volker Markl, Nimrod Megiddo, Marcel Kutsch, Tam M...
We present a randomized coloring algorithm for the unstructured radio network model, a model comprising autonomous nodes, asynchronous wake-up, no collision detection and an unkno...
Numerous techniques exist to help users automate repetitive tasks; however, none of these methods fully support enduser creation, use, and modification of the learned tasks. We pr...
Aaron Spaulding, Jim Blythe, Will Haines, Melinda ...
We consider the case of a virtual world of peers that are organized in an overlay built by Delaunay Triangulation. Application layer routing is used to determine the path taken in...