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2006
ACM
108views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
Gowers uniformity, influence of variables, and PCPs
Gowers [Gow98, Gow01] introduced, for d 1, the notion of dimension-d uniformity Ud (f) of a function f : G C, where G is a finite abelian group. Roughly speaking, if a function ...
Alex Samorodnitsky, Luca Trevisan
GIS
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Energy efficient exact kNN search in wireless broadcast environments
The advances in wireless communication and decreasing costs of mobile devices have enabled users to access desired information at any time. Coupled with positioning technologies l...
Bugra Gedik, Aameek Singh, Ling Liu
ICDT
2009
ACM
147views Database» more  ICDT 2009»
16 years 6 months ago
The average-case complexity of counting distinct elements
We continue the study of approximating the number of distinct elements in a data stream of length n to within a (1? ) factor. It is known that if the stream may consist of arbitra...
David P. Woodruff
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
191views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 6 months ago
Efficient aggregation for graph summarization
Graphs are widely used to model real world objects and their relationships, and large graph datasets are common in many application domains. To understand the underlying character...
Yuanyuan Tian, Richard A. Hankins, Jignesh M. Pate...
CIKM
2009
Springer
16 years 21 days ago
Post-rank reordering: resolving preference misalignments between search engines and end users
No search engine is perfect. A typical type of imperfection is the preference misalignment between search engines and end users, e.g., from time to time, web users skip higherrank...
Chao Liu, Mei Li, Yi-Min Wang