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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
164views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Finding frequent items in probabilistic data
Computing statistical information on probabilistic data has attracted a lot of attention recently, as the data generated from a wide range of data sources are inherently fuzzy or ...
Qin Zhang, Feifei Li, Ke Yi
PODS
2005
ACM
151views Database» more  PODS 2005»
14 years 7 months ago
Estimating arbitrary subset sums with few probes
Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
Noga Alon, Nick G. Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel ...
MOBIHOC
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
An O(log n) dominating set protocol for wireless ad-hoc networks under the physical interference model
Dealing with interference is one of the primary challenges to solve in the design of protocols for wireless ad-hoc networks. Most of the work in the literature assumes localized o...
Christian Scheideler, Andréa W. Richa, Paol...
SODA
2010
ACM
201views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Incentive Compatible Budget Elicitation in Multi-unit Auctions
In this paper, we consider the problem of designing incentive compatible auctions for multiple (homogeneous) units of a good, when bidders have private valuations and private budg...
Sayan Bhattacharya, Vincent Conitzer, Kamesh Munag...
ICDT
2010
ACM
211views Database» more  ICDT 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Probabilistic Data Exchange
The work reported here lays the foundations of data exchange in the presence of probabilistic data. This requires rethinking the very basic concepts of traditional data exchange, ...
Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Phokion Kolaitis