In Online Analytic Processing (OLAP) deployments, different users, lines of businesses and business units often create adhoc aggregation hierarchies tailor-made for specific report...
Search engines provide a small window to the vast repository of data they index and against which they search. They try their best to return the documents that are of relevance to...
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...
Applications such as parallel computing, online games, and content distribution networks need to run on a set of resources with particular network connection characteristics to ge...
Abstract. This paper presents an approach to semi-automate photo annotation. Instead of using content-recognition techniques this approach leverages context information available a...