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SIGMOD
2004
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Rank-aware Query Optimization
Ranking is an important property that needs to be fully supported by current relational query engines. Recently, several rank-join query operators have been proposed based on rank...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey ...
ICDE
2009
IEEE
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14 years 9 months ago
Confidence-Aware Join Algorithms
In uncertain and probabilistic databases, confidence values (or probabilities) are associated with each data item. Confidence values are assigned to query results based on combinin...
Parag Agrawal, Jennifer Widom
UAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Web-Based Question Answering: A Decision-Making Perspective
We investigate the use of probabilistic models and cost-benefit analyses to guide the operation of a Web-based question-answering system. We first provide an overview of research ...
David Azari, Eric Horvitz, Susan T. Dumais, Eric B...
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Adversary lower bounds for nonadaptive quantum algorithms
We present two general methods for proving lower bounds on the query complexity of nonadaptive quantum algorithms. Both methods are based on the adversary method of Ambainis. We sh...
Pascal Koiran, Jürgen Landes, Natacha Portier...
IRFC
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
An Information Retrieval Model Based on Discrete Fourier Transform
Abstract. Information Retrieval (IR) systems combine a variety of techniques stemming from logical, vector-space and probabilistic models. This variety of combinations has produced...
Alberto Costa, Massimo Melucci