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SODA
2010
ACM
149views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
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Resource Minimization for Fire Containment
We consider the following model for fire containment. We are given an undirected graph G = (V, E) with a source vertex s where the fire starts. At each time step, the firefighters...
Parinya Chalermsook, Julia Chuzhoy
ICDT
2010
ACM
219views Database» more  ICDT 2010»
16 years 3 months ago
Aggregate Queries for Discrete and Continuous Probabilistic XML
Sources of data uncertainty and imprecision are numerous. A way to handle this uncertainty is to associate probabilistic annotations to data. Many such probabilistic database mode...
Serge Abiteboul, T.-H Hubert Chan, Evgeny Kharlamo...
ICDT
2010
ACM
211views Database» more  ICDT 2010»
16 years 3 months ago
Probabilistic Data Exchange
The work reported here lays the foundations of data exchange in the presence of probabilistic data. This requires rethinking the very basic concepts of traditional data exchange, ...
Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Phokion Kolaitis
SDM
2009
SIAM
219views Data Mining» more  SDM 2009»
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A Hybrid Data Mining Metaheuristic for the p-Median Problem.
Metaheuristics represent an important class of techniques to solve, approximately, hard combinatorial optimization problems for which the use of exact methods is impractical. In t...
Alexandre Plastino, Erick R. Fonseca, Richard Fuch...
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
BorderPatrol: isolating events for black-box tracing
Causal request traces are valuable to developers of large concurrent and distributed applications, yet difficult to obtain. Traces show how a request is processed, and can be anal...
Eric Koskinen, John Jannotti