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PODS
2010
ACM
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15 years 7 months ago
An optimal algorithm for the distinct elements problem
We give the first optimal algorithm for estimating the number of distinct elements in a data stream, closing a long line of theoretical research on this problem begun by Flajolet...
Daniel M. Kane, Jelani Nelson, David P. Woodruff
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MOBICOM
2004
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Revisiting the TTL-based controlled flooding search: optimality and randomization
In this paper we consider the problem of searching for a node or an object (i.e., piece of data, file, etc.) in a large network. Applications of this problem include searching fo...
Nicholas B. Chang, Mingyan Liu
BMCBI
2008
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15 years 2 months ago
Optimal neighborhood indexing for protein similarity search
Background: Similarity inference, one of the main bioinformatics tasks, has to face an exponential growth of the biological data. A classical approach used to cope with this data ...
Pierre Peterlongo, Laurent Noé, Dominique L...
ECCV
2004
Springer
16 years 4 months ago
An Information-Based Measure for Grouping Quality
We propose a method for measuring the quality of a grouping result, based on the following observation: a better grouping result provides more information about the true, unknown g...
Erik A. Engbers, Michael Lindenbaum, Arnold W. M. ...
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ICDE
2008
IEEE
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16 years 3 months ago
Exploiting Lineage for Confidence Computation in Uncertain and Probabilistic Databases
We study the problem of computing query results with confidence values in ULDBs: relational databases with uncertainty and lineage. ULDBs, which subsume probabilistic databases, o...
Anish Das Sarma, Martin Theobald, Jennifer Widom