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EDBT
2006
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Query Planning in the Presence of Overlapping Sources
Navigational queries on Web-accessible life science sources pose unique query optimization challenges. The objects in these sources are interconnected to objects in other sources, ...
Jens Bleiholder, Samir Khuller, Felix Naumann, Lou...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Deployed ARMOR protection: the application of a game theoretic model for security at the Los Angeles International Airport
Security at major locations of economic or political importance is a key concern around the world, particularly given the threat of terrorism. Limited security resources prevent f...
James Pita, Manish Jain, Janusz Marecki, Fernando ...
NIPS
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Fast and Scalable Training of Semi-Supervised CRFs with Application to Activity Recognition
We present a new and efficient semi-supervised training method for parameter estimation and feature selection in conditional random fields (CRFs). In real-world applications suc...
Maryam Mahdaviani, Tanzeem Choudhury
COMPLEXITY
2004
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13 years 7 months ago
Sex promotes gamete selection: A quantitative comparative study of features favoring the evolution of sex
: Explaining the maintenance of sexual reproduction remains one of the greatest challenges in biology. The theoretical oddity of sex is based on at least three advantages that asex...
Klaus Jaffe
EDBT
2006
ACM
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HASE: A Hybrid Approach to Selectivity Estimation for Conjunctive Predicates
Current methods for selectivity estimation fall into two broad categories, synopsis-based and sampling-based. Synopsis-based methods, such as histograms, incur minimal overhead at ...
Xiaohui Yu, Nick Koudas, Calisto Zuzarte