Users of MapReduce often run into performance problems when they scale up their workloads. Many of the problems they encounter can be overcome by applying techniques learned from ...
Avrilia Floratou, Jignesh M. Patel, Eugene J. Shek...
With the recent surge of social networks such as Facebook, new forms of recommendations have become possible – recommendations that rely on one’s social connections in order t...
Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Aleksandra Korolova, Atish...
New hardware platforms, e.g. cloud, multi-core, etc., have led to a reconsideration of database system architecture. Our Deuteronomy project separates transactional functionality ...
David B. Lomet, Kostas Tzoumas, Michael J. Zwillin...
Matching problems are ubiquitous. They occur in economic markets, labor markets, internet advertising, and elsewhere. In this paper we focus on an application of matching for soci...
Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, ...
Studies find that at least 20% of web queries have local intent; and the fraction of queries with local intent that originate from mobile properties may be twice as high. The eme...
Petros Venetis, Hector Gonzalez, Christian S. Jens...
OPEN is an ontology-based programming framework for rapid prototyping, sharing, and personalization of context-aware applications. Unlike previous systems that provide programming ...