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VLDB
2002
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
FAS - A Freshness-Sensitive Coordination Middleware for a Cluster of OLAP Components
Data warehouses offer a compromise between freshness of data and query evaluation times. However, a fixed preference ratio between these two variables is too undifferentiated. Wit...
Uwe Röhm, Klemens Böhm, Hans-Jörg S...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Supporting ranking and clustering as generalized order-by and group-by
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
JMLR
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Causal Inference
: This review presents empirical researchers with recent advances in causal inference, and stresses the paradigmatic shifts that must be undertaken in moving from traditional stati...
Judea Pearl
AAAI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
A Utility-Theoretic Approach to Privacy and Personalization
Online services such as web search, news portals, and ecommerce applications face the challenge of providing highquality experiences to a large, heterogeneous user base. Recent ef...
Andreas Krause, Eric Horvitz
SASO
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Swarming Polyagents Executing Hierarchical Task Networks
Swarming agents often operate in benign geographic topologies that let them explore alternative trajectories with minor variations that the agent dynamics then amplify for improve...
Sven A. Brueckner, Theodore C. Belding, Robert Bis...