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WEBDB
2007
Springer
159views Database» more  WEBDB 2007»
16 years 17 days ago
A clustering-based sampling approach for refreshing search engine's database
Due to resource constraints, search engines usually have difficulties keeping the local database completely synchronized with the Web. To detect as many changes as possible, the ...
Qingzhao Tan, Ziming Zhuang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. L...
KDD
2005
ACM
99views Data Mining» more  KDD 2005»
15 years 12 months ago
Disease progression modeling from historical clinical databases
This paper considers the problem of modeling disease progression from historical clinical databases, with the ultimate objective of stratifying patients into groups with clearly d...
Ronald K. Pearson, Robert J. Kingan, Alan Hochberg
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
The Effect of Database Size Distribution on Resource Selection Algorithms
Resource selection is an important topic in distributed information retrieval research. It can be a component of a distributed information retrieval task and can also serve as an i...
Luo Si, Jamie Callan
CORR
2011
Springer
175views Education» more  CORR 2011»
15 years 1 months ago
A Novel Probabilistic Pruning Approach to Speed Up Similarity Queries in Uncertain Databases
Abstract— In this paper, we propose a novel, effective and efficient probabilistic pruning criterion for probabilistic similarity queries on uncertain data. Our approach support...
Thomas Bernecker, Tobias Emrich, Hans-Peter Kriege...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
165views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 6 months ago
Statistical analysis of sketch estimators
Sketching techniques can provide approximate answers to aggregate queries either for data-streaming or distributed computation. Small space summaries that have linearity propertie...
Florin Rusu, Alin Dobra