The relationship between our actions and their perceivable results is ruled by what we call the laws of nature. It is general understanding that our actions act upon real objects ...
Management and analysis of streaming data has become crucial with its applications in web, sensor data, network traffic data, and stock market. Data streams consist of mostly nume...
We study the efficient evaluation of top-k queries over data items, where the score of each item is dynamically computed by applying an item-specific function whose parameter valu...
Lin Guo, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Jay...
Much research in software engineering have been focused on improving software quality and automating the maintenance process to reduce software costs and mitigating complications ...
Dual decomposition has been recently proposed as a way of combining complementary models, with a boost in predictive power. However, in cases where lightweight decompositions are ...