The need for efficient decentralized recommender systems has been appreciated for some time, both for the intrinsic advantages of decentralization and the necessity of integrating...
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Vincent Leroy, Afshin Moin, ...
Graph construction plays a key role on learning algorithms based on graph Laplacian. However, the traditional graph construction approaches of -neighborhood and k-nearest-neighbor...
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
In this paper we study the following problem. Given a database and a set of queries, we want to find, in advance, a set of views that can compute the answers to the queries, such ...
The relationship between financial incentives and performance, long of interest to social scientists, has gained new relevance with the advent of web-based “crowd-sourcing” mo...