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VLDB
2002
ACM
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13 years 7 months ago
ProTDB: Probabilistic Data in XML
Whereas traditional databases manage only deterministic information, many applications that use databases involve uncertain data. This paper presents a Probabilistic Tree Data Bas...
Andrew Nierman, H. V. Jagadish
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Scalable Probabilistic Databases with Factor Graphs and MCMC
Incorporating probabilities into the semantics of incomplete databases has posed many challenges, forcing systems to sacrifice modeling power, scalability, or treatment of relatio...
Michael L. Wick, Andrew McCallum, Gerome Miklau
AAAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
A Multi-Dimensional Trust Model for Heterogeneous Contract Observations
In this paper we develop a novel probabilistic model of computational trust that allows agents to exchange and combine reputation reports over heterogeneous, correlated multi-dime...
Steven Reece, Stephen Roberts, Alex Rogers, Nichol...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Generative models for name disambiguation
Name ambiguity is a special case of identity uncertainty where one person can be referenced by multiple name variations in different situations or even share the same name with ot...
Yang Song, Jian Huang 0002, Isaac G. Councill, Jia...
SIAMDM
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Scheduling Unrelated Machines by Randomized Rounding
We present a new class of randomized approximation algorithms for unrelated parallel machine scheduling problems with the average weighted completion time objective. The key idea i...
Andreas S. Schulz, Martin Skutella