In this paper we consider the problem of gossiping in a network to diffuse the average of a sub-set of nodes, called sources, and directing it to another sub-set of nodes in the ne...
Mehmet Ercan Yildiz, Anna Scaglione, Asuman E. Ozd...
We simulate the evolution of a domain vocabulary in small communities. Empirical data show that human communicators can evolve graphical languages quickly in a constrained task (P...
We study in this paper provenance information for queries with aggregation. Provenance information was studied in the context of various query languages that do not allow for aggr...
Abstract— In this paper, we propose a novel, effective and efficient probabilistic pruning criterion for probabilistic similarity queries on uncertain data. Our approach support...
Thomas Bernecker, Tobias Emrich, Hans-Peter Kriege...
We describe the activities of the Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) group at Microsoft Research. We highlight our research themes and activities using examples from our researc...
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachiappan Nagappa...