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PODS
2003
ACM
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Algorithms for data migration with cloning
Our work is motivated by the problem of managing data on storage devices, typically a set of disks. Such high demand storage servers are used as web servers, or multimedia servers...
Samir Khuller, Yoo Ah Kim, Yung-Chun (Justin) Wan
PODS
2008
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Approximation algorithms for co-clustering
Co-clustering is the simultaneous partitioning of the rows and columns of a matrix such that the blocks induced by the row/column partitions are good clusters. Motivated by severa...
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Anirban Dasgupta, Ravi Kumar
EDBT
2006
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Querying and Updating Probabilistic Information in XML
Abstract. We present in this paper a new model for representing probabilistic information in a semi-structured (XML) database, based on the use of probabilistic event variables. Th...
Serge Abiteboul, Pierre Senellart
EDBT
2006
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Expressiveness and Performance of Full-Text Search Languages
We study the expressiveness and performance of full-text search languages. Our main motivation is to provide a formal basis for comparing such languages and to develop a model for...
Chavdar Botev, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Jayavel Shanmugas...
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
16 years 6 months ago
A Component Architecture for an Extensible, Highly Integrated Context-Aware Computing Infrastructure
Ubiquitous context-aware computing systems present several challenges in their construction. Principal among them is the tradeoff between easily providing new contextaware service...
William G. Griswold, Robert T. Boyer, Steven W. Br...