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SYNTHESE
2011
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15 years 1 months ago
Modeling reality
: My aim in this paper is to articulate an account of scientific modeling that reconciles pluralism about modeling with a modest form of scientific realism. The central claim of th...
Christopher Pincock
STOC
2005
ACM
184views Algorithms» more  STOC 2005»
15 years 12 months ago
Coresets in dynamic geometric data streams
A dynamic geometric data stream consists of a sequence of m insert/delete operations of points from the discrete space {1, . . . , ∆}d [26]. We develop streaming (1 + )-approxim...
Gereon Frahling, Christian Sohler
ICDE
2007
IEEE
122views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
16 years 7 months ago
Group Linkage
Poor quality data is prevalent in databases due to a variety of reasons, including transcription errors, lack of standards for recording database fields, etc. To be able to query ...
Byung-Won On, Nick Koudas, Dongwon Lee, Divesh Sri...
GIS
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Exploiting online sources to accurately geocode addresses
Many Geographic Information System (GIS) applications require the conversion of an address to geographic coordinates. This process is called geocoding. The traditional geocoding m...
Rahul Bakshi, Craig A. Knoblock, Snehal Thakkar
GIS
2006
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Filtering with raster signatures
Efficient evaluation of spatial queries is an important issue in spatial database. Among spatial operations, spatial join is very useful, intersection being the most common predic...
Leonardo Guerreiro Azevedo, Ralf Hartmut Güti...