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NIPS
2008
13 years 10 months ago
MDPs with Non-Deterministic Policies
Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) have been extensively studied and used in the context of planning and decision-making, and many methods exist to find the optimal policy for probl...
Mahdi Milani Fard, Joelle Pineau
IAT
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Acquiring Vague Temporal Information from the Web
Many real–world information needs are naturally formulated as queries with temporal constraints. However, the structured temporal background information needed to support such c...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
113views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
14 years 10 months ago
Reducing Order Enforcement Cost in Complex Query Plans
Algorithms that exploit sort orders are widely used to implement joins, grouping, duplicate elimination and other set operations. Query optimizers traditionally deal with sort ord...
Ravindra Guravannavar, S. Sudarshan
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
On scaling latent semantic indexing for large peer-to-peer systems
The exponential growth of data demands scalable infrastructures capable of indexing and searching rich content such as text, music, and images. A promising direction is to combine...
Chunqiang Tang, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Zhichen Xu
DBISP2P
2005
Springer
172views Database» more  DBISP2P 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
A Content-Addressable Network for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces
In this paper we present a scalable and distributed access structure for similarity search in metric spaces. The approach is based on the Content– addressable Network (CAN) parad...
Fabrizio Falchi, Claudio Gennaro, Pavel Zezula