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VLDB
2001
ACM
157views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
16 years 6 months ago
MiniCon: A scalable algorithm for answering queries using views
The problem of answering queries using views is to find efficient methods of answering a query using a set of previously materialized views over the database, rather than accessing...
Rachel Pottinger, Alon Y. Halevy
STOC
1997
ACM
125views Algorithms» more  STOC 1997»
15 years 10 months ago
An Interruptible Algorithm for Perfect Sampling via Markov Chains
For a large class of examples arising in statistical physics known as attractive spin systems (e.g., the Ising model), one seeks to sample from a probability distribution π on an...
James Allen Fill
JCP
2006
91views more  JCP 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
The Matching Predicate and a Filtering Scheme Based on Matroids
Finding a maximum cardinality matching in a graph is a problem appearing in numerous settings. The problem asks for a set of edges of maximum cardinality, such that no two edges of...
Dimitris Magos, Ioannis Mourtos, Leonidas S. Pitso...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
On the Power of Randomization in Algorithmic Mechanism Design
In many settings the power of truthful mechanisms is severely bounded. In this paper we use randomization to overcome this problem. In particular, we construct an FPTAS for multi-...
Shahar Dobzinski, Shaddin Dughmi
EUSFLAT
2009
137views Fuzzy Logic» more  EUSFLAT 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Novel Methods for the Design of General Type-2 Fuzzy Sets based on Device Characteristics and Linguistic Labels Surveys
Fuzzy Logic Systems are widely recognized to be successful at modelling uncertainty in a large variety of applications. While recently interval type-2 fuzzy logic has been credited...
Christian Wagner, Hani Hagras