Decision theory does not traditionally include uncertainty over utility functions. We argue that the a person's utility value for a given outcome can be treated as we treat o...
This paper introduces bifocal sampling, a new technique for estimating the size of an equi-join of two relations. Bifocal sampling classi es tuples in each relation into two group...
Sumit Ganguly, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, A...
Many real datasets have uncertain categorical attribute values that are only approximately measured or imputed. Uncertainty in categorical data is commonplace in many applications...
We consider the problem of constructing decision trees for entity identification from a given relational table. The input is a table containing information about a set of entities...
Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy, Vinayaka Pandit, Samb...
This article describes computational modeling and two corresponding experimental investigations of the effects of symmetry, balance and quantity of construction elements on interf...