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VLDB
2005
ACM
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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...
BMCBI
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Generating confidence intervals on biological networks
Background: In the analysis of networks we frequently require the statistical significance of some network statistic, such as measures of similarity for the properties of interact...
Thomas Thorne, Michael P. H. Stumpf
ICDE
2007
IEEE
207views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
16 years 8 months ago
SIGOPT: Using Schema to Optimize XML Query Processing
There has been a great deal of work in recent years on processing and optimizing queries against XML data. Typically in these previous works, schema information is not considered,...
Stelios Paparizos, Jignesh M. Patel, H. V. Jagadis...
JCDL
2005
ACM
98views Education» more  JCDL 2005»
16 years 9 days ago
Using collection descriptions to enhance an aggregation of harvested item-level metadata
As an increasing number of digital library projects embrace the harvesting of item-level descriptive metadata, issues of description granularity and concerns about potential loss ...
Muriel Foulonneau, Timothy W. Cole, Thomas G. Habi...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
16 years 9 days ago
Do summaries help?
We describe a task-based evaluation to determine whether multi-document summaries measurably improve user performance when using online news browsing systems for directed research...
Kathleen McKeown, Rebecca J. Passonneau, David K. ...