XML streams, such as RSS feeds or complex event streams, are becoming increasingly pervasive as they provide the foundation for a wide range of emerging applications. An important...
A Business Process (BP) consists of some business activities undertaken by one or more organizations in pursuit of some business goal. Tools for querying and analyzing BP specifica...
We present the architectural design and recent performance optimizations of a state of the art commercial database replication technology provided in Oracle Streams. The underlying...
Lik Wong, Nimar S. Arora, Lei Gao, Thuvan Hoang, J...
Abstract-- Sponsored search auctions form a multibillion dollar industry. Search providers auction advertisement slots on search result pages to advertisers who are charged only if...
Abstract-- Inverted files have been very successful for document retrieval, but sponsored search is different. Inverted files are designed to find documents that match the query (a...
Graphs are being increasingly used to model a wide range of scientific data. Such widespread usage of graphs has generated considerable interest in mining patterns from graph datab...
Data publishing can provide enormous benefits to the society. However, due to privacy concerns, data cannot be published in their original forms. Two types of data publishing can a...
Traditional decision tree classifiers work with data whose values are known and precise. We extend such classifiers to handle data with uncertain information, which originates from...
Smith Tsang, Ben Kao, Kevin Y. Yip, Wai-Shing Ho, ...
Search queries on biomedical databases like PubMed often return a large number of results, only a small subset of which is relevant to the user. Ranking and categorization, which c...