Indexes for large collections are often divided into shards that are distributed across multiple computers and searched in parallel to provide rapid interactive search. Typically,...
We study a supply chain with one supplier and many retailers that face exogenous endcustomer demands. The supplier and the retailers all try to minimize their own inventory-relate...
—This work introduces a link-based covariance measure between the nodes of a weighted directed graph where a cost is associated to each arc. To this end, a probability distributi...
Keyword search in relational databases has been extensively studied. Given a relational database, a keyword query finds a set of interconnected tuple structures connected by fore...
Commercial databases compete for market share, which is composed of not only net-new sales to those purchasing a database for the first time, but also competitive “win-backs”...
Reynold Xin, Patrick Dantressangle, Sam Lightstone...