Estimation via sampling out of highly selective join queries is well known to be problematic, most notably in online aggregation. Without goal-directed sampling strategies, samples...
Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
Background: In a high throughput setting, effective flow cytometry data analysis depends heavily on proper data preprocessing. While usual preprocessing steps of quality assessmen...
Greg Finak, Juan-Manuel Perez, Andrew Weng, Raphae...
A general geometrical framework for image processing is presented. We consider intensity images as surfaces in the (x I) space. The image is thereby a two dimensional surface in t...
Many new database application domains such as experimental sciences and medicine are characterized by large sequences as their main form of data. Using approximate representation ...