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PODS
2003
ACM
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An information-theoretic approach to normal forms for relational and XML data
Normalization as a way of producing good database designs is a well-understood topic. However, the same problem of distinguishing well-designed databases from poorly designed ones...
Marcelo Arenas, Leonid Libkin
PODS
2006
ACM
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Approximate quantiles and the order of the stream
Recently, there has been an increased focus on modeling uncertainty by distributions. Suppose we wish to compute a function of a stream whose elements are samples drawn independen...
Sudipto Guha, Andrew McGregor
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Creating a cognitive metric of programming task difficulty
Conducting controlled experiments about programming activities often requires the use of multiple tasks of similar difficulty. In previously reported work about a controlled exper...
Brian de Alwis, Gail C. Murphy, Shawn Minto
ICFP
2007
ACM
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Adding delimited and composable control to a production programming environment
Operators for delimiting control and for capturing composable continuations litter the landscape of theoretical programming language research. Numerous papers explain their advant...
Matthew Flatt, Gang Yu, Robert Bruce Findler, Matt...
ICFP
2006
ACM
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Design patterns as higher-order datatype-generic programs
Design patterns are reusable abstractions in object-oriented software. However, using current mainstream programming languages, these elements can only be expressed extra-linguist...
Jeremy Gibbons