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PPAM
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Formal Model of Multi-agent Computations
Abstract. The paper contains an extension of a formal model of multiagent computing system developed in previous publications towards considering a more general system state. We pr...
Maciej Smolka
FOCS
2004
IEEE
14 years 22 days ago
Stochastic Optimization is (Almost) as easy as Deterministic Optimization
Stochastic optimization problems attempt to model uncertainty in the data by assuming that (part of) the input is specified in terms of a probability distribution. We consider the...
David B. Shmoys, Chaitanya Swamy
ADBIS
2005
Springer
116views Database» more  ADBIS 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
A Formal Model for the Problem of View Selection for Aggregate Queries
We present a formal analysis of the following view-selection problem: Given a set of queries and a database, return definitions of views that, when materialized in the database, w...
Jingni Li, Zohreh Asgharzadeh Talebi, Rada Chirkov...
AAAI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Expressive Banner Ad Auctions and Model-Based Online Optimization for Clearing
We present the design of a banner advertising auction which is considerably more expressive than current designs. We describe a general model of expressive ad contracts/bidding an...
Craig Boutilier, David C. Parkes, Tuomas Sandholm,...
ICDE
1995
IEEE
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14 years 10 months ago
Set-Oriented Mining for Association Rules in Relational Databases
We describe set-oriented algorithms for mining association rules. Such algorithms imply performing multiple joins and may appear to be inherently less escient than special-purpose...
Maurice A. W. Houtsma, Arun N. Swami