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SIGMOD
1998
ACM
96views Database» more  SIGMOD 1998»
15 years 10 months ago
Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation
Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we ...
Yossi Matias, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang
STOC
2010
ACM
204views Algorithms» more  STOC 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
Interactive privacy via the median mechanism
We define a new interactive differentially private mechanism — the median mechanism — for answering arbitrary predicate queries that arrive online. Given fixed accuracy and...
Aaron Roth, Tim Roughgarden
MM
2005
ACM
172views Multimedia» more  MM 2005»
15 years 11 months ago
Learning the semantics of multimedia queries and concepts from a small number of examples
In this paper we unify two supposedly distinct tasks in multimedia retrieval. One task involves answering queries with a few examples. The other involves learning models for seman...
Apostol Natsev, Milind R. Naphade, Jelena Tesic
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Sailer: an effective search engine for unified retrieval of heterogeneous xml and web documents
This paper studies the problem of unified ranked retrieval of heterogeneous XML documents and Web data. We propose an effective search engine called Sailer to adaptively and versa...
Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng, Jianyong Wang, Xiaoming...
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Reasoning With Provenance, Trust and all that other Meta Knowlege in OWL
Abstract—For many tasks, such as the integration of knowledge bases in the semantic web, one must not only handle the knowledge itself, but also characterizations of this knowled...
Simon Schenk, Renata Queiroz Dividino, Steffen Sta...