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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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2008
ACM
Approximate queries on a collection of strings are important in many applications such as record linkage, spell checking, and Web search, where inconsistencies and errors exist in...
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SIGMOD
2003
ACM
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2003
ACM
Most relational query optimizers make use of information about the costs of accessing tuples and data structures on various storage devices. This information can at times be off b...
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PODS
2005
ACM
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2005
ACM
Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
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PODS
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
A fundamental problem in distributed computation is the distributed evaluation of functions. The goal is to determine the value of a function over a set of distributed inputs, in ...
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MOBISYS
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
Adaptive transmit power control in 802.11 Wireless LANs (WLANs) on a per-link basis helps increase network capacity and improves battery life of Wifi-enabled mobile devices. Howev...