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STOC
2009
ACM
163views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
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Non-monotone submodular maximization under matroid and knapsack constraints
Submodular function maximization is a central problem in combinatorial optimization, generalizing many important problems including Max Cut in directed/undirected graphs and in hy...
Jon Lee, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Viswanath Nagarajan, M...
KDD
2007
ACM
165views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
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Efficient and effective explanation of change in hierarchical summaries
Dimension attributes in data warehouses are typically hierarchical (e.g., geographic locations in sales data, URLs in Web traffic logs). OLAP tools are used to summarize the measu...
Deepak Agarwal, Dhiman Barman, Dimitrios Gunopulos...
STOC
2004
ACM
157views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
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Derandomizing homomorphism testing in general groups
The main result of this paper is a near-optimal derandomization of the affine homomorphism test of Blum, Luby and Rubinfeld (Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 1993). We sho...
Amir Shpilka, Avi Wigderson
PODS
2007
ACM
159views Database» more  PODS 2007»
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Generalized hypertree decompositions: np-hardness and tractable variants
The generalized hypertree width GHW(H) of a hypergraph H is a measure of its cyclicity. Classes of conjunctive queries or constraint satisfaction problems whose associated hypergr...
Georg Gottlob, Thomas Schwentick, Zoltán Mi...
EDBT
2008
ACM
161views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
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Load distribution of analytical query workloads for database cluster architectures
Enterprises may have multiple database systems spread across the organization for redundancy or for serving different applications. In such systems, query workloads can be distrib...
Thomas Phan, Wen-Syan Li