Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
Noga Alon, Nick G. Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel ...
Accurately and efficiently estimating the number of distinct values for some attribute(s) or sets of attributes in a data set is of critical importance to many database operation...
: The emerging trend towards seamless monitoring of all business processes via comprehensive sensor networks – in particular RFID readers – creates new data management challeng...
The objective of this paper is to describe the use of a probabilistic approach to Web effort estimation by means of a Bayesian Network. A Bayesian Network is a model that embodies ...
A fundamental problem related to graph structured databases is searching for substructures. One issue with respect to optimizing such searches is the ability to estimate the freque...
Angela Maduko, Kemafor Anyanwu, Amit P. Sheth, Pau...