DHT is a widely used building block for scalable P2P systems. However, as uniform hashing employed in DHTs destroys data locality, it is not a trivial task to support complex queri...
Microblogs are a tremendous repository of user-generated content about world events. However, for people trying to understand events by querying services like Twitter, a chronolog...
Adam Marcus 0002, Michael S. Bernstein, Osama Bada...
Life sciences researchers perform scientific literature search as part of their daily activities. Many such searches are executed against PubMed, a central repository of life sci...
Julia Stoyanovich, Mayur Lodha, William Mee, Kenne...
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are increasingly managing very large sets of data and hence a centralized data repository may not always provide the most scalable solution. H...
This paper tackles a major privacy threat in current location-based services where users have to report their exact locations to the database server in order to obtain their desire...