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SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Supporting ranking and clustering as generalized order-by and group-by
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Documenting and automating collateral evolutions in linux device drivers
The internal libraries of Linux are evolving rapidly, to address new requirements and improve performance. These evolutions, however, entail a massive problem of collateral evolut...
Yoann Padioleau, Julia L. Lawall, René Rydh...
PLDI
2009
ACM
16 years 25 days ago
Analyzing recursive programs using a fixed-point calculus
We show that recursive programs where variables range over finite domains can be effectively and efficiently analyzed by describing the analysis algorithm using a formula in a ...
Salvatore La Torre, Parthasarathy Madhusudan, Genn...
LOCA
2007
Springer
16 years 5 days ago
SocialMotion: Measuring the Hidden Social Life of a Building
In this paper we present an approach to analyzing the social behaviors that occur in a typical office space. We describe a system consisting of over 200 motion sensors connected ...
Christopher Richard Wren, Yuri A. Ivanov, Ishwinde...
CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Towards estimating the number of distinct value combinations for a set of attributes
Accurately and efficiently estimating the number of distinct values for some attribute(s) or sets of attributes in a data set is of critical importance to many database operation...
Xiaohui Yu, Calisto Zuzarte, Kenneth C. Sevcik