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STOC
2001
ACM
111views Algorithms» more  STOC 2001»
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Optimal outlier removal in high-dimensional
We study the problem of finding an outlier-free subset of a set of points (or a probability distribution) in n-dimensional Euclidean space. As in [BFKV 99], a point x is defined t...
John Dunagan, Santosh Vempala
VLDB
2007
ACM
181views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
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STAR: Self-Tuning Aggregation for Scalable Monitoring
We present STAR, a self-tuning algorithm that adaptively sets numeric precision constraints to accurately and efficiently answer continuous aggregate queries over distributed data...
Navendu Jain, Michael Dahlin, Yin Zhang, Dmitry Ki...
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
133views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
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Constrained Optimalities in Query Personalization
Personalization is a powerful mechanism that helps users to cope with the abundance of information on the Web. Database query personalization achieves this by dynamically construc...
Georgia Koutrika, Yannis E. Ioannidis
PODS
2008
ACM
129views Database» more  PODS 2008»
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Tree-width and functional dependencies in databases
Conjunctive query (CQ) evaluation on relational databases is NP-complete in general. Several restrictions, like bounded tree-width and bounded hypertree-width, allow polynomial ti...
Isolde Adler
EDBT
2008
ACM
99views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
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Querying time-series streams
Index trees created using distance based indexing are difficult to maintain online since the distance function involved is often costly to compute. This problem is intensified whe...
Vivekanand Gopalkrishnan