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SIGMOD
2004
ACM
140views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
14 years 7 months ago
Automatic Direct and Indirect Schema Mapping: Experiences and Lessons Learned
A schema mapping produces a semantic correspondence between two schemas. Automating schema mapping is challenging. The existence of 1:n (or n:1) and n:m mapping cardinalities make...
David W. Embley, Li Xu, Yihong Ding
SODA
2001
ACM
163views Algorithms» more  SODA 2001»
13 years 9 months ago
Algorithms for facility location problems with outliers
d Abstract) Moses Charikar Samir Khullery David M. Mountz Giri Narasimhanx Facility location problems are traditionally investigated with the assumption that all the clients are t...
Moses Charikar, Samir Khuller, David M. Mount, Gir...
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
Fitness Distributions and GA Hardness
Considerable research effort has been spent in trying to formulate a good definition of GA-Hardness. Given an instance of a problem, the objective is to estimate the performance of...
Yossi Borenstein, Riccardo Poli
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Performance debugging for distributed systems of black boxes
Many interesting large-scale systems are distributed systems of multiple communicating components. Such systems can be very hard to debug, especially when they exhibit poor perfor...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Janet L...
JAR
2000
129views more  JAR 2000»
13 years 7 months ago
Heavy-Tailed Phenomena in Satisfiability and Constraint Satisfaction Problems
We study the runtime distributions of backtrack procedures for propositional satisfiability and constraint satisfaction. Such procedures often exhibit a large variability in perfor...
Carla P. Gomes, Bart Selman, Nuno Crato, Henry A. ...