The problem of answering queries using views is to find efficient methods of answering a
query using a set of previously defined materialized views over the database, rather than …

Distributed data processing is becoming a reality. Businesses want to do it for many
reasons, and they often must do it in order to stay competitive. While much of the …

Neural networks of ads systems usually take input from multiple resources, eg query-ad
relevance, ad features and user portraits. These inputs are encoded into one-hot or multi-hot …

Many cryptocurrencies have come into existence in recent years, with Bitcoin the most
prominent among them. Although its short history has been volatile, the virtual currency …

As one of the major search engines in the world, Baidu's Sponsored Search has long
adopted the use of deep neural network (DNN) models for Ads click-through rate (CTR) …

Materialized views are queries whose results are stored and maintained in order to facilitate
access to data in their underlying base tables. In the SQL setting, they are now considered a …

Pre-computation and materialization of views with aggregate functions is a common
technique in Data Warehouses. Due to the complex structure of the warehouse and the …

Location-dependent applications are becoming very popular in mobile environments. To
improve system performance and facilitate disconnection, caching is crucial to such …

Traditional database systems are built around the query-at-a-time model. This approach
tries to optimize performance in a best-effort way. Unfortunately, best effort is not good …

This article discusses efficiency and effectiveness issues in caching the results of queries
submitted to a Web search engine (WSE). We propose SDC (Static Dynamic Cache), a new …