Publish/subscribe is emerging as an appropriate communication paradigm for large-scale, widely-distributed systems. In this paper, we describe our work on integrating active datab...
In order to obtain a suitable model of the universe of discourse of some information systems, it is important to allow the description of imprecise objects with temporal indetermi...
Ed Porto Bezerra, Ulrich Schiel, Bernardo Lula Jr.
- We investigate extensions of the classical measurement of effectiveness in information retrieval systems, precision and recall, to situations where the answer is modeled by a fuz...
MapReduce is a popular framework for data-intensive distributed computing of batch jobs. To simplify fault tolerance, the output of each MapReduce task and job is materialized to ...
Tyson Condie, Neil Conway, Peter Alvaro, Joseph M....
— Search queries on biomedical databases, such as PubMed, often return a large number of results, only a small subset of which is relevant to the user. Ranking and categorization...