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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Efficient top-k algorithms for fuzzy search in string collections
An approximate search query on a collection of strings finds those strings in the collection that are similar to a given query string, where similarity is defined using a given si...
Rares Vernica, Chen Li
EDBT
2006
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
HASE: A Hybrid Approach to Selectivity Estimation for Conjunctive Predicates
Current methods for selectivity estimation fall into two broad categories, synopsis-based and sampling-based. Synopsis-based methods, such as histograms, incur minimal overhead at ...
Xiaohui Yu, Nick Koudas, Calisto Zuzarte
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Analysis of a Redundant Architecture for Critical Infrastructure Protection
Critical infrastructures like the power grid are emerging as collection of existing separated systems of different nature which are interconnected together. Their criticality becom...
Alessandro Daidone, Andrea Bondavalli, Paulo Ver&i...
PERCOM
2006
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Efficient Data Harvesting in Mobile Sensor Platforms
In this paper we study the use of vehicles as sensors in a "vehicular sensor network," a new network paradigm that is critical for gathering valuable information in urba...
Uichin Lee, Eugenio Magistretti, Biao Zhou, Mario ...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Context-for-wireless: context-sensitive energy-efficient wireless data transfer
Ubiquitous connectivity on mobile devices will enable numerous new applications in healthcare and multimedia. We set out to check how close we are towards ubiquitous connectivity ...
Ahmad Rahmati, Lin Zhong