We study the notion of regret ratio proposed in [19] to deal with multi-criteria decision making in database systems. The regret minimization query proposed in [19] was shown to h...
Danupon Nanongkai, Ashwin Lall, Atish Das Sarma, K...
Estimation via sampling out of highly selective join queries is well known to be problematic, most notably in online aggregation. Without goal-directed sampling strategies, samples...
Background: Publicly accessible EST libraries contain valuable information that can be utilized for studies of tissue-specific gene expression and processing of individual genes. ...
Abstract. With the rapid development of on-line information services, information technologies for on-line information processing have been receiving much attention recently. Clust...
Several recent studies have found only a weak relationship between the performance of a retrieval system and the "success" achievable by human searchers. We hypothesize ...