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BMCBI
2011
13 years 6 days ago
Accurate statistics for local sequence alignment with position-dependent scoring by rare-event sampling
Background: Molecular database search tools need statistical models to assess the significance for the resulting hits. In the classical approach one asks the question how probable...
Stefan Wolfsheimer, Inke Herms, Sven Rahmann, Alex...
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
150views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
14 years 5 months ago
When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage
Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano
JMLR
2010
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13 years 3 hour ago
Collaborative Filtering via Rating Concentration
While most popular collaborative filtering methods use low-rank matrix factorization and parametric density assumptions, this article proposes an approach based on distribution-fr...
Bert Huang, Tony Jebara
ICDE
2010
IEEE
219views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
PIP: A Database System for Great and Small Expectations
Estimation via sampling out of highly selective join queries is well known to be problematic, most notably in online aggregation. Without goal-directed sampling strategies, samples...
Oliver Kennedy, Christoph Koch
SSD
2005
Springer
122views Database» more  SSD 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Selectivity Estimation of High Dimensional Window Queries via Clustering
Abstract. Query optimization is an important functionality of modern database systems and often based on estimating the selectivity of queries before actually executing them. Well-...
Christian Böhm, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kr&o...