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SIGMOD
2005
ACM
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16 years 9 days ago
Automated statistics collection in action
If presented with inaccurate statistics, even the most sophisticated query optimizers make mistakes. They may wrongly estimate the output cardinality of a certain operation and th...
Peter J. Haas, Mokhtar Kandil, Alberto Lerner, Vol...
VLDB
2005
ACM
126views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
16 years 6 days ago
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...
SIGMOD
1993
ACM
150views Database» more  SIGMOD 1993»
15 years 10 months ago
Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates
The traditional focus of relational query optimization schemes has been on the choice of join methods and join orders. Restrictions have typically been handled in query optimizers ...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker
AIPS
2010
15 years 9 months ago
When Policies Can Be Trusted: Analyzing a Criteria to Identify Optimal Policies in MDPs with Unknown Model Parameters
Computing a good policy in stochastic uncertain environments with unknown dynamics and reward model parameters is a challenging task. In a number of domains, ranging from space ro...
Emma Brunskill
AAAI
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Existentially Quantified Values for Queries and Updates of Facts in Transaction Logic Programs
In several applications of logic programming and Transaction Logic, such as, planning, trust management and independent Semantic Web Services, an action might produce incomplete f...
Paul Fodor