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SIGMOD
2010
ACM
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15 years 8 months ago
ERACER: a database approach for statistical inference and data cleaning
Real-world databases often contain syntactic and semantic errors, in spite of integrity constraints and other safety measures incorporated into modern DBMSs. We present ERACER, an...
Chris Mayfield, Jennifer Neville, Sunil Prabhakar
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FOCS
2002
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
A Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithm for the Multicommodity
We present the first constant-factor approximation algorithm for network design with multiple commodities and economies of scale. We consider the rent-or-buy problem, a type of m...
Amit Kumar, Anupam Gupta, Tim Roughgarden
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SIBGRAPI
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Graph-based Object Tracking Using Structural Pattern Recognition
This paper proposes a model-based methodology for recognizing and tracking objects in digital image sequences. Objects are represented by attributed relational graphs (or ARGs), w...
Ana Beatriz V. Graciano, Roberto Marcondes Cesar J...
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ICCS
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Improved Sampling for Biological Molecules Using Shadow Hybrid Monte Carlo
Shadow Hybrid Monte Carlo (SHMC) is a new method for sampling the phase space of large biological molecules. It improves sampling by allowing larger time steps and system sizes in ...
Scott S. Hampton, Jesús A. Izaguirre
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PODS
2005
ACM
151views Database» more  PODS 2005»
16 years 3 months ago
Estimating arbitrary subset sums with few probes
Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
Noga Alon, Nick G. Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel ...