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SIGMOD
1996
ACM
97views Database» more  SIGMOD 1996»
15 years 7 months ago
Bifocal Sampling for Skew-Resistant Join Size Estimation
This paper introduces bifocal sampling, a new technique for estimating the size of an equi-join of two relations. Bifocal sampling classi es tuples in each relation into two group...
Sumit Ganguly, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, A...
ICML
2006
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
A new approach to data driven clustering
We consider the problem of clustering in its most basic form where only a local metric on the data space is given. No parametric statistical model is assumed, and the number of cl...
Arik Azran, Zoubin Ghahramani
IPPS
1998
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Randomized Routing and PRAM Emulation on Parallel Machines
This paper shows the power of randomization in designing e cient parallel algorithms for the problems of routing and PRAM emulation. We show that with randomization techniques opti...
David S. L. Wei
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ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Nonuniform bribery
We study the concept of bribery in the situation where voters are willing to change their votes as we ask them, but where their prices depend on the nature of the change we reques...
Piotr Faliszewski
STOC
1993
ACM
123views Algorithms» more  STOC 1993»
15 years 7 months ago
Constructing small sample spaces satisfying given constraints
Abstract. The subject of this paper is nding small sample spaces for joint distributions of n discrete random variables. Such distributions are often only required to obey a certa...
Daphne Koller, Nimrod Megiddo