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ATAL
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Towards a unifying characterization for quantifying weak coupling in dec-POMDPs
Researchers in the field of multiagent sequential decision making have commonly used the terms “weakly-coupled” and “loosely-coupled” to qualitatively classify problems i...
Stefan J. Witwicki, Edmund H. Durfee
HUC
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Sundroid: solar radiation awareness with smartphones
While the sun is important for our health, overexposure to sunlight carries significant health risks ranging from sunburn to skin cancer. Although people know about these risks, ...
Thomas Fahrni, Michael Kuhn 0002, Philipp Sommer, ...
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
253views Database» more  SIGMOD 2012»
13 years 9 months ago
Skew-aware automatic database partitioning in shared-nothing, parallel OLTP systems
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
Andrew Pavlo, Carlo Curino, Stanley B. Zdonik
SDM
2012
SIAM
278views Data Mining» more  SDM 2012»
13 years 9 months ago
Legislative Prediction via Random Walks over a Heterogeneous Graph
In this article, we propose a random walk-based model to predict legislators’ votes on a set of bills. In particular, we first convert roll call data, i.e. the recorded votes a...
Jun Wang, Kush R. Varshney, Aleksandra Mojsilovic
EDBT
2012
ACM
247views Database» more  EDBT 2012»
13 years 9 months ago
Heuristics-based query optimisation for SPARQL
Query optimization in RDF Stores is a challenging problem as SPARQL queries typically contain many more joins than equivalent relational plans, and hence lead to a large join orde...
Petros Tsialiamanis, Lefteris Sidirourgos, Irini F...