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VLDB
2005
ACM
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Consistently Estimating the Selectivity of Conjuncts of Predicates
Cost-based query optimizers need to estimate the selectivity of conjunctive predicates when comparing alternative query execution plans. To this end, advanced optimizers use multi...
Volker Markl, Nimrod Megiddo, Marcel Kutsch, Tam M...
CP
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Heuristic Selection for Stochastic Search Optimization: Modeling Solution Quality by Extreme Value Theory
The success of stochastic algorithms is often due to their ability to effectively amplify the performance of search heuristics. This is certainly the case with stochastic sampling ...
Vincent A. Cicirello, Stephen F. Smith
PATAT
2004
Springer
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Learning User Preferences in Distributed Calendar Scheduling
Abstract. Within the field of software agents, there has been increasing interest in automating the process of calendar scheduling in recent years. Calendar (or meeting) schedulin...
Jean Oh, Stephen F. Smith
ELPUB
1998
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The Library in the Card: Results from Decomate Project and Current Developments at UAB
The Library in the card is the slogan which would summarize the aims of the Univeritat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) Library Service in its involvement in several EC Libraries Progr...
Nuria Gallart
IPPS
1996
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Practical Parallel Algorithms for Dynamic Data Redistribution, Median Finding, and Selection
A common statistical problem is that of nding the median element in a set of data. This paper presents a fastand portable parallel algorithm for nding the median given a set of el...
David A. Bader, Joseph JáJá