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2010
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Runtime Measurements in the Cloud: Observing, Analyzing, and Reducing Variance
One of the main reasons why cloud computing has gained so much popularity is due to its ease of use and its ability to scale computing resources on demand. As a result, users can ...
Jörg Schad, Jens Dittrich, Jorge-Arnulfo Quia...
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2010
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Database Replication: a Tale of Research across Communities
Replication is a key mechanism to achieve scalability and fault-tolerance in databases. Its importance has recently been further increased because of the role it plays in achievin...
Bettina Kemme, Gustavo Alonso
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2010
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TimeTrails: A System for Exploring Spatio-Temporal Information in Documents
Spatial and temporal data have become ubiquitous in many application domains such as the Geosciences or life sciences. Sophisticated database management systems are employed to ma...
Jannik Strötgen, Michael Gertz
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2010
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The Performance of MapReduce: An In-depth Study
MapReduce has been widely used for large-scale data analysis in the Cloud. The system is well recognized for its elastic scalability and fine-grained fault tolerance although its...
Dawei Jiang, Beng Chin Ooi, Lei Shi, Sai Wu
PVLDB
2010
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Nearest Neighbor Search with Strong Location Privacy
The tremendous growth of the Internet has significantly reduced the cost of obtaining and sharing information about individuals, raising many concerns about user privacy. Spatial...
Stavros Papadopoulos, Spiridon Bakiras, Dimitris P...
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2010
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Small Domain Randomization: Same Privacy, More Utility
Random perturbation is a promising technique for privacy preserving data mining. It retains an original sensitive value with a certain probability and replaces it with a random va...
Rhonda Chaytor, Ke Wang
PVLDB
2010
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MCDB-R: Risk Analysis in the Database
Enterprises often need to assess and manage the risk arising from uncertainty in their data. Such uncertainty is typically modeled as a probability distribution over the uncertain...
Peter J. Haas, Christopher M. Jermaine, Subi Arumu...
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2010
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Regret-Minimizing Representative Databases
We propose the k-representative regret minimization query (k-regret) as an operation to support multi-criteria decision making. Like top-k, the k-regret query assumes that users h...
Danupon Nanongkai, Atish Das Sarma, Ashwin Lall, R...
PVLDB
2010
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Two-way Replacement Selection
The performance of external sorting using merge sort is highly dependent on the length of the runs generated. One of the most commonly used run generation strategies is Replacemen...
Xavier Martinez-Palau, David Dominguez-Sal, Josep-...
PVLDB
2010
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ObjectRunner: Lightweight, Targeted Extraction and Querying of Structured Web Data
We present in this paper ObjectRunner, a system for extracting, integrating and querying structured data from the Web. Our system harvests real-world items from template-based HTM...
Talel Abdessalem, Bogdan Cautis, Nora Derouiche