The performance of XML database queries can be greatly enhanced by rewriting them using materialized views. We study the problem of rewriting a query using materialized views, whe...
Given a set of N multi-dimensional points, we study the computation of -quantiles according to a ranking function F, which is provided by the user at runtime. Specifically, F compu...
Service placement deals with the problem of selecting which node in a network is most suitable for hosting a service that responds to queries from other nodes. Optimally placing s...
We show the underpinnings of a method for summarizing documents: it ingests a document and automatically highlights a small set of sentences that are expected to cover the differ...
Many people take pictures of different city landmarks and post them to photo-sharing systems like Flickr. They also add tags and place photos in Flickr groups, created around parti...
Rabeeh Abbasi, Sergey Chernov, Wolfgang Nejdl, Ral...