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JMLR
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Complete Identification Methods for the Causal Hierarchy
We consider a hierarchy of queries about causal relationships in graphical models, where each level in the hierarchy requires more detailed information than the one below. The hie...
Ilya Shpitser, Judea Pearl
NDQA
2003
119views Education» more  NDQA 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Inference Web: Portable and Sharable Explanations for Question Answering
The World Wide Web lacks support for explaining information provenance. When web applications return results, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they ...
Deborah L. McGuinness, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva
BTW
2005
Springer
113views Database» more  BTW 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
A Learning Optimizer for a Federated Database Management System
: Optimizers in modern DBMSs utilize a cost model to choose an efficient query execution plan (QEP) among all possible ones for a given query. The accuracy of the cost estimates de...
Stephan Ewen, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Volker ...
BTW
2007
Springer
154views Database» more  BTW 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Integrating Query-Feedback Based Statistics into Informix Dynamic Server
: Statistics that accurately describe the distribution of data values in the columns of relational tables are essential for effective query optimization in a database management sy...
Alexander Behm, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Kesha...
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
121views Database» more  SIGMOD 2001»
14 years 8 months ago
XML Document Versioning
Managing multiple versions of XML documents represents an important problem, because of many applications ranging from traditional ones, such as software configuration control, to...
Shu-Yao Chien, Vassilis J. Tsotras, Carlo Zaniolo