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SEC
2007
13 years 9 months ago
An Experimental Evaluation of Multi-Key Strategies for Data Outsourcing
Data outsourcing is emerging today as a successful solution for organizations looking for a cost-effective way to make their data available for on-line querying. To protect outsou...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...
IIS
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Query Selectivity Estimation via Data Mining
Estimating the result size of a join is an important query optimization problem as it determines the choice of a good query evaluation strategy. Yet, there are few efficient techni...
Jarek Gryz, Dongming Liang
AAAI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Hierarchical Location and Topic Based Query Expansion
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to expand queries by exploring both location information and topic information of the queries. Users at different locations tend to have...
Shu Huang, Qiankun Zhao, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee G...
WCE
2007
13 years 8 months ago
An Intelligent Conversational Agent Approach to Extracting Queries from Natural Language
—This paper is concerned with the application of a conversational agent and expert system to provide a natural language interface to a database. Typically, natural language datab...
Karen Pudner, Keeley A. Crockett, Zuhair Bandar
AMEC
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Options-Based Method to Solve the Composability Problem in Sequential Auctions
Abstract. Current auctions often expose bidding agents to two difficult, yet common, problems. First, bidding agents often have the opportunity to participate in successive auctio...
Adam I. Juda, David C. Parkes