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ICLP
2009
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Using Histograms to Better Answer Queries to Probabilistic Logic Programs
Probabilistic logic programs (PLPs) define a set of probability distribution functions (PDFs) over the set of all Herbrand interpretations of the underlying logical language. When...
Matthias Broecheler, Gerardo I. Simari, V. S. Subr...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Comparative Study of Parallel Metaheuristics for Protein Structure Prediction on the Computational Grid
A comparative study of parallel metaheuristics executed in grid environments is proposed, having as case study a genetic algorithm, a simulated annealing algorithm and a random se...
Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghaza...
FOCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
The Limits of Two-Party Differential Privacy
We study differential privacy in a distributed setting where two parties would like to perform analysis of their joint data while preserving privacy for both datasets. Our results ...
Andrew McGregor, Ilya Mironov, Toniann Pitassi, Om...
CORR
2011
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
A Novel Probabilistic Pruning Approach to Speed Up Similarity Queries in Uncertain Databases
Abstract— In this paper, we propose a novel, effective and efficient probabilistic pruning criterion for probabilistic similarity queries on uncertain data. Our approach support...
Thomas Bernecker, Tobias Emrich, Hans-Peter Kriege...
SPAA
2004
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
Online hierarchical cooperative caching
We address a hierarchical generalization of the well-known disk paging problem. In the hierarchical cooperative caching problem, a set of n machines residing in an ultrametric spa...
Xiaozhou Li, C. Greg Plaxton, Mitul Tiwari, Arun V...