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ICML
1997
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Why Experimentation can be better than "Perfect Guidance"
Tobias Scheffer, Russell Greiner, Christian Darken
WSC
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Better than a petaflop: The power of efficient experimental design
Recent advances in high-performance computing have pushed computational capabilities to a petaflop (a thousand trillion operations per second) in a single computing cluster. This ...
Susan M. Sanchez
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
145views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
Why off-the-shelf RDBMSs are better at XPath than you might expect
To compensate for the inherent impedance mismatch between the relational data model (tables of tuples) and XML (ordered, unranked trees), tree join algorithms have become the prev...
Torsten Grust, Jan Rittinger, Jens Teubner
EDBT
2008
ACM
160views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Why go logarithmic if we can go linear?: Towards effective distinct counting of search traffic
Estimating the number of distinct elements in a large multiset has several applications, and hence has attracted active research in the past two decades. Several sampling and sket...
Ahmed Metwally, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
GROUP
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Two peers are better than one: aggregating peer reviews for computing assignments is surprisingly accurate
Scientiï¬c peer review, open source software development, wikis, and other domains use distributed review to improve quality of created content by providing feedback to the workâ...
Ken Reily, Pam Ludford Finnerty, Loren G. Terveen