The PC Desktop is a very rich repository of personal information, efficiently capturing user's interests. In this paper we propose a new approach towards an automatic persona...
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Claudiu S. Firan, Wolfgang...
On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is a trend in database technology, based on the multidimensional view of data. In this paper we introduce the Cube Presentation Model (CPM), a ...
Andreas S. Maniatis, Panos Vassiliadis, Spiros Ski...
The primary purpose of news articles is to convey information about who, what, when and where. But learning and summarizing these relationships for collections of thousands to mil...
David Newman, Chaitanya Chemudugunta, Padhraic Smy...
The execution performance of an information gathering plan can suffer significantly due to remote I/O latencies. A streaming dataflow model of execution addresses the problem to s...
We consider the problem of data durability in lowbandwidth large-scale distributed storage systems. Given the limited bandwidth between replicas, these systems suffer from long re...