The largest databases in use today are so large that answering a query exactly can take minutes, hours, or even days. One way to address this problem is to make use of approximati...
Chris Jermaine, Alin Dobra, Abhijit Pol, Shantanu ...
One important way in which sampling for approximate query processing in a database environment differs from traditional applications of sampling is that in a database, it is feasi...
Ruoming Jin, Leonid Glimcher, Chris Jermaine, Gaga...
In large data recording and warehousing environments, it is often advantageous to provide fast, approximate answers to queries, whenever possible. Before DBMSs providing highly-ac...
Relevance-based language models operate by estimating the probabilities of observing words in documents relevant (or pseudo relevant) to a topic. However, these models assume that ...