Block-level sampling is far more efficient than true uniform-random sampling over a large database, but prone to significant errors if used to create database statistics. In this ...
—The ability to scalably measure one-way packet loss across different network paths is vital to IP network management. However, the effectiveness of active-measurement techniques...
Yu Gu, Lee Breslau, Nick G. Duffield, Subhabrata S...
Accurate cardinality estimation is critically important to high-quality query optimization. It is well known that conventional cardinality estimation based on histograms or simila...
Recently there has been a surge of interest in developing performance debugging tools to help programmers tune their applications for better memory performance [2, 4, 10]. These t...
Margaret Martonosi, Anoop Gupta, Thomas E. Anderso...
Background: Choosing the appropriate sample size is an important step in the design of a microarray experiment, and recently methods have been proposed that estimate sample sizes ...