— A recent trend for data-intensive computations is to use pay-as-you-go execution environments that scale transparently to the user. However, providers of such environments must...
In collaborative filtering systems, a common technique is default voting. Unknown ratings are filled with a default value to alleviate the sparsity of rating databases. We show ...
Identifying single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are responsible for common and complex diseases such as cancer is of major interest in current molecular epidemiology. Howe...
Despite the importance of ranked queries in numerous applications involving multi-criteria decision making, they are not efficiently supported by traditional database systems. In ...
In many applications, we find large video collections from different genres where the user is often only interested in one or two specific video genres. So, when users are queryin...