The integration of networked applications, especially those requiring continuous access to shared information resources and databases, may be effected by scheduled unavailability ...
We consider the problem of learning to rank relevant and novel documents so as to directly maximize a performance metric called Expected Global Utility (EGU), which has several de...
Recent trends in Internet computing have led to the popularization of many forms of virtual organizations. Examples include supply chain management, grid computing, and collaborat...
Large, dynamic, and ad-hoc organizations must frequently initiate data integration and sharing efforts with insufficient awareness of how organizational data sources are related. ...
Ken Smith, Craig Bonaceto, Chris Wolf, Beth Yost, ...
We extend the problem of association rule mining – a key data mining problem – to systems in which the database is partitioned among a very large number of computers that are ...