Though causal order of message delivery simplifies the design and development of distributed applications, the overhead of enforcing it is not negligible. Causal order algorithm w...
Ikhyeon Jang, Jaehyung Park, Jung Wan Cho, Hyunsoo...
Manually querying search engines in order to accumulate a large body of factual information is a tedious, error-prone process of piecemeal search. Search engines retrieve and rank...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, S...
Traditionally, Information Extraction (IE) has focused on satisfying precise, narrow, pre-specified requests from small homogeneous corpora (e.g., extract the location and time o...
Michele Banko, Michael J. Cafarella, Stephen Soder...
In the database community, work on information extraction (IE) has centered on two themes: how to effectively manage IE tasks, and how to manage the uncertainties that arise in th...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Garo...
The design principle of restricting local autonomy only where necessary for global robustness has led to a scalable Internet. Unfortunately, this scalability and capacity for dist...
Angelos D. Keromytis, Sotiris Ioannidis, Michael B...