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SSDBM
1999
IEEE
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Supporting Imprecision in Multidimensional Databases Using Granularities
On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) technologies are being used widely, but the lack of effective means of handling data imprecision, which occurs when exact values are not known...
Torben Bach Pedersen, Christian S. Jensen, Curtis ...
COOPIS
1998
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Wrapper Generation for Web Accessible Data Sources
There is an increase in the number of data sources that can be queried across the WWW. Such sources typically support HTML forms-based interfaces and search engines query collecti...
Jean-Robert Gruser, Louiqa Raschid, Maria-Esther V...
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
A generative retrieval model for structured documents
Structured documents contain elements defined by the author(s) and annotations assigned by other people or processes. Structured documents pose challenges for probabilistic retrie...
Le Zhao, Jamie Callan
DCOSS
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
An Information Theoretic Framework for Field Monitoring Using Autonomously Mobile Sensors
We consider a mobile sensor network monitoring a spatio-temporal field. Given limited caches at the sensor nodes, the goal is to develop a distributed cache management algorithm to...
Hany Morcos, George Atia, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim ...
IJCAI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Automated Design of Multistage Mechanisms
Mechanism design is the study of preference aggregation protocols that work well in the face of self-interested agents. We present the first general-purpose techniques for automa...
Tuomas Sandholm, Vincent Conitzer, Craig Boutilier