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EDBT
2010
ACM
132views Database» more  EDBT 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Turbo-charging hidden database samplers with overflowing queries and skew reduction
Recently, there has been growing interest in random sampling from online hidden databases. These databases reside behind form-like web interfaces which allow users to execute sear...
Arjun Dasgupta, Nan Zhang 0004, Gautam Das
CP
1998
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Optimizing with Constraints: A Case Study in Scheduling Maintenance of Electric Power Units
A well-studied problem in the electric power industry is that of optimally scheduling preventative maintenance of power generating units within a power plant. We show how these pr...
Daniel Frost, Rina Dechter
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Improving verbose queries using subset distribution
Dealing with verbose (or long) queries poses a new challenge for information retrieval. Selecting a subset of the original query (a "sub-query") has been shown to be an ...
Xiaobing Xue, Samuel Huston, W. Bruce Croft
STOC
2001
ACM
122views Algorithms» more  STOC 2001»
14 years 8 months ago
One-dimensional quantum walks
In this paper we analyze the behavior of quantum random walks. In particular we present several new results for the absorption probabilities in systems with both one and two absor...
Andris Ambainis, Eric Bach, Ashwin Nayak, Ashvin V...
TOMACS
2002
113views more  TOMACS 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Simulating heavy tailed processes using delayed hazard rate twisting
Consider the problem of estimating the small probability that the maximum of a random walk exceeds a large threshold, when the process has a negative drift and the underlying rand...
Sandeep Juneja, Perwez Shahabuddin