TLSDKCS
2016
8 years 16 days ago
2016
Abstract. While price and data quality should define the major tradeoff for consumers in data markets, prices are usually prescribed by vendors and data quality is not negotiable...
TLSDKCS
2016
8 years 16 days ago
2016
To rate a data store is to compute a value that describes the performance of the data store with a database and a workload. A common performance metric of interest is the highest ...
APCCM
2013
8 years 11 months ago
2013
It is common in organizational contexts and in law to apply a decision-scope approach to decision making. Higher organization levels set a decision scope within which lower organi...
FOMI
2011
12 years 4 months ago
2011
Abstract. In this paper three perspectives are presented on defining the general notion of technical artifacts in formal ontologies. These perspectives share two intuitions: that ...
ANOR
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
ANOR
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
This paper proposes a new methodology to schedule activities in projects with stochastic activity durations. The main idea is to determine for each activity an interval in which th...
ANOR
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
The challenge of maximizing the diversity of a collection of points arises in a variety of settings, including the setting of search methods for hard optimization problems. One ver...
AMW
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Abstract. Social Network (SN) data has become ubiquitous, demanding advanced and flexible means to represent, transform and query such data. In addition to the intrinsic challenge...
AMW
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
The goal of this paper is to permit secure outsourced system evaluation. We propose a method for generating synthetic databases and obfuscating a workload of queries in order to pr...
AMW
2011
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Subqueries are a poweful feature which allows to enforce reuse, composition, rewriting and optimization in a query language. In this paper we perform a comprehensive study of the i...