— The web today is increasingly characterized by social and real-time signals, which we believe represent two frontiers in information retrieval. In this paper, we present Earlyb...
Michael Busch, Krishna Gade, Brian Larson, Patrick...
Abstract—Most objects and data in the real world are interconnected, forming complex, heterogeneous but often semistructured information networks. However, many database research...
Abstract—After decades of effort working on database performance, the quality and the usability of database systems have received more attention in recent years. In particular, t...
—MapReduce has emerged as a popular tool for distributed and scalable processing of massive data sets and is increasingly being used in e-science applications. Unfortunately, the...
Benjamin Gufler, Nikolaus Augsten, Angelika Reiser...
—A major challenge faced by today’s information systems is that of evolution as data usage evolves or new data resources become available. Modern organizations sometimes exchan...
— A key step in validating a proposed idea or system is to evaluate over a suitable data set. However, to this date there have been no useful tools for researchers to understand ...
Meiyu Lu, Srinivas Bangalore, Graham Cormode, Mari...
—There is increasing interest in analyzing networks of all types including social, biological, sensor, computer, and transportation networks. Broadly speaking, we may be interest...
—Large graphs are used in many applications, such as social networking. The management of these graphs poses new challenges because such graphs are too large to fit on a single ...
— XML is commonly supported by SQL database systems. However, existing mappings of XML to tables can only deliver satisfactory query performance for limited use cases. In this pa...
Liang Jeff Chen, Philip A. Bernstein, Peter Carlin...
— Differential privacy has recently emerged as the de facto standard for private data release. This makes it possible to provide strong theoretical guarantees on the privacy and ...
Graham Cormode, Cecilia M. Procopiuc, Divesh Sriva...