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EDBT
2012
ACM
214views Database» more  EDBT 2012»
13 years 9 months ago
An optimization framework for map-reduce queries
We present an effective optimization framework for general SQLlike map-reduce queries, which is based on a novel query algebra and uses a small number of higher-order physical ope...
Leonidas Fegaras, Chengkai Li, Upa Gupta
ECCV
2008
Springer
16 years 8 months ago
Improving People Search Using Query Expansions
In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
Thomas Mensink, Jakob J. Verbeek
MDM
2005
Springer
165views Communications» more  MDM 2005»
16 years 7 days ago
STEP: Self-Tuning Energy-safe Predictors
Data access prediction has been proposed as a mechanism to overcome latency lag, and more recently as a means of conserving energy in mobile systems. We present a fully adaptive p...
James Larkby-Lahet, Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed...
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
116views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
Fast range-summable random variables for efficient aggregate estimation
Exact computation for aggregate queries usually requires large amounts of memory ? constrained in data-streaming ? or communication ? constrained in distributed computation ? and ...
Florin Rusu, Alin Dobra
ICDT
2012
ACM
293views Database» more  ICDT 2012»
13 years 9 months ago
On the complexity of query answering over incomplete XML documents
Previous studies of incomplete XML documents have identified three main sources of incompleteness – in structural information, data values, and labeling – and addressed data ...
Amélie Gheerbrant, Leonid Libkin, Tony Tan