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ICML
1997
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Why Experimentation can be better than "Perfect Guidance"
Tobias Scheffer, Russell Greiner, Christian Darken
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Better than a petaflop: The power of efficient experimental design
Recent advances in high-performance computing have pushed computational capabilities to a petaflop (a thousand trillion operations per second) in a single computing cluster. This ...
Susan M. Sanchez
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
145views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
Why off-the-shelf RDBMSs are better at XPath than you might expect
To compensate for the inherent impedance mismatch between the relational data model (tables of tuples) and XML (ordered, unranked trees), tree join algorithms have become the prev...
Torsten Grust, Jan Rittinger, Jens Teubner
EDBT
2008
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Why go logarithmic if we can go linear?: Towards effective distinct counting of search traffic
Estimating the number of distinct elements in a large multiset has several applications, and hence has attracted active research in the past two decades. Several sampling and sket...
Ahmed Metwally, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Work smarter, not harder: guidelines for designing simulation experiments
We present the basic concepts of experimental design, the types of goals it can address, and why it is such an important and useful tool for simulation. A well-designed experiment...
Susan M. Sanchez