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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
NECO
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
A Bayesian Committee Machine
The Bayesian committee machine (BCM) is a novel approach to combining estimators which were trained on different data sets. Although the BCM can be applied to the combination of a...
Volker Tresp
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
159views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Histograms reloaded: the merits of bucket diversity
Virtually all histograms store for each bucket the number of distinct values it contains and their average frequency. In this paper, we question this paradigm. We start out by inv...
Carl-Christian Kanne, Guido Moerkotte
ICDE
2007
IEEE
142views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Database Virtualization: A New Frontier for Database Tuning and Physical Design
Resource virtualization is currently being employed at all levels of the IT infrastructure to improve provisioning and manageability, with the goal of reducing total cost of owner...
Ahmed A. Soror, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem
DASFAA
2006
IEEE
111views Database» more  DASFAA 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Holistic Schema Mappings for XML-on-RDBMS
When hosting XML information on relational backends, a mapping has to be established between the schemas of the information source and the target storage repositories. A rich body ...
Priti Patil, Jayant R. Haritsa