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TKDE
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
A Cost-Based Approach to Adaptive Resource Management in Data Stream Systems
Data stream management systems need to control their resources adaptively since stream characteristics and query workload may vary over time. In this paper we investigate an approa...
Michael Cammert, Jürgen Krämer, Bernhard...
PVLDB
2010
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15 years 4 months ago
Conditioning and Aggregating Uncertain Data Streams: Going Beyond Expectations
Uncertain data streams are increasingly common in real-world deployments and monitoring applications require the evaluation of complex queries on such streams. In this paper, we c...
Thanh T. L. Tran, Andrew McGregor, Yanlei Diao, Li...
IUI
2006
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Towards intelligent QA interfaces: discourse processing for context questions
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
Mingyu Sun, Joyce Y. Chai
AAAI
2006
15 years 8 months ago
An Edge Deletion Semantics for Belief Propagation and its Practical Impact on Approximation Quality
We show in this paper that the influential algorithm of iterative belief propagation can be understood in terms of exact inference on a polytree, which results from deleting enoug...
Arthur Choi, Adnan Darwiche
FQAS
2004
Springer
103views Database» more  FQAS 2004»
15 years 12 months ago
A Unifying Framework for Flexible Information Access in Taxonomy-Based Sources
A taxonomy-based source consists of a taxonomy and a database storing objects that are indexed in terms of the taxonomy. For this kind of sources, we describe a flexible interacti...
Yannis Tzitzikas, Carlo Meghini, Nicolas Spyratos