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SIGMOD
2002
ACM
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Minimal probing: supporting expensive predicates for top-k queries
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Seung-won Hwang
SIGMOD
2002
ACM
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Wavelet synopses with error guarantees
Recent work has demonstrated the effectiveness of the wavelet decomposition in reducing large amounts of data to compact sets of wavelet coefficients (termed "wavelet synopse...
Minos N. Garofalakis, Phillip B. Gibbons
PODS
2006
ACM
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From statistical knowledge bases to degrees of belief: an overview
An intelligent agent will often be uncertain about various properties of its environment, and when acting in that environment it will frequently need to quantify its uncertainty. ...
Joseph Y. Halpern
EDBT
2008
ACM
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Robustness in automatic physical database design
Automatic physical database design tools rely on "what-if" interfaces to the query optimizer to estimate the execution time of the training query workload under differen...
Kareem El Gebaly, Ashraf Aboulnaga
ICFP
2005
ACM
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Dynamic optimization for functional reactive programming using generalized algebraic data types
A limited form of dependent types, called Generalized Algebraic Data Types (GADTs), has recently been added to the list of Haskell extensions supported by the Glasgow Haskell Comp...
Henrik Nilsson