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FCT
2003
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Complexity of Approximating Closest Substring Problems
The closest substring problem, where a short string is sought that minimizes the number of mismatches between it and each of a given set of strings, is a minimization problem with ...
Patricia A. Evans, Andrew D. Smith
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
New Sampling-Based Summary Statistics for Improving Approximate Query Answers
In large data recording and warehousing environments, it is often advantageous to provide fast, approximate answers to queries, whenever possible. Before DBMSs providing highly-ac...
Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias
VLDB
2000
ACM
155views Database» more  VLDB 2000»
15 years 1 months ago
ICICLES: Self-Tuning Samples for Approximate Query Answering
Approximate query answering systems provide very fast alternatives to OLAP systems when applications are tolerant to small errors in query answers. Current sampling-based approach...
Venkatesh Ganti, Mong-Li Lee, Raghu Ramakrishnan
TPDS
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
A New Storage Scheme for Approximate Location Queries in Object-Tracking Sensor Networks
Energy efficiency is one of the most critical issues in the design of wireless sensor networks. Observing that many sensor applications for object tracking can tolerate a certain d...
Jianliang Xu, Xueyan Tang, Wang-Chien Lee
PODS
1999
ACM
121views Database» more  PODS 1999»
15 years 2 months ago
Tracking Join and Self-Join Sizes in Limited Storage
Query optimizers rely on fast, high-quality estimates of result sizes in order to select between various join plans. Selfjoin sizes of relations provide bounds on the join size of...
Noga Alon, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, Mario...