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2007
ACM
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The price of privacy and the limits of LP decoding
This work is at the intersection of two lines of research. One line, initiated by Dinur and Nissim, investigates the price, in accuracy, of protecting privacy in a statistical dat...
Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kunal Talwar
STOC
2007
ACM
146views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
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Playing games with approximation algorithms
In an online linear optimization problem, on each period t, an online algorithm chooses st S from a fixed (possibly infinite) set S of feasible decisions. Nature (who may be adve...
Sham M. Kakade, Adam Tauman Kalai, Katrina Ligett
STOC
2003
ACM
124views Algorithms» more  STOC 2003»
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Extractors: optimal up to constant factors
This paper provides the first explicit construction of extractors which are simultaneously optimal up to constant factors in both seed length and output length. More precisely, fo...
Chi-Jen Lu, Omer Reingold, Salil P. Vadhan, Avi Wi...
VLDB
2005
ACM
149views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
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Selectivity estimators for multidimensional range queries over real attributes
Estimating the selectivity of multidimensional range queries over real valued attributes has significant applications in data exploration and database query optimization. In this p...
Dimitrios Gunopulos, George Kollios, Vassilis J. T...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
175views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
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QoX-driven ETL design: reducing the cost of ETL consulting engagements
As business intelligence becomes increasingly essential for organizations and as it evolves from strategic to operational, the complexity of Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes...
Alkis Simitsis, Kevin Wilkinson, Malú Caste...