Existing keyword-search systems in relational databases require users to submit a complete query to compute answers. Often users feel "left in the dark" when they have l...
When a database query has a large number of results, the user can only be shown one page of results at a time. One popular approach is to rank results such that the "best&quo...
Today's enterprise databases are large and complex, often relating hundreds of entities. Enabling ordinary users to query such databases and derive value from them has been o...
Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
Noga Alon, Nick G. Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel ...
People interact with interfaces to accomplish goals, and knowledge about human goals can be useful for building intelligent user interfaces. We suggest that modeling high, human-l...