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ICDE
2008
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
Dominant Graph: An Efficient Indexing Structure to Answer Top-K Queries
Given a record set D and a query score function F, a top-k query returns k records from D, whose values of function F on their attributes are the highest. In this paper, we investi...
Lei Zou, Lei Chen 0002
FOCS
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Adaptive Simulated Annealing: A Near-optimal Connection between Sampling and Counting
We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
Daniel Stefankovic, Santosh Vempala, Eric Vigoda
TIME
1994
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
An Algebraic Formulation of Temporal Knowledge for Reasoning about Recurring Events
We formulate an algebra of binary temporal relations between events the number of occurrences of which is unknown, but which are known to recur in time. Ontologically, we view the...
Robert A. Morris, William D. Shoaff, Lina Khatib
JGS
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
Pattern based map comparisons
Map comparison techniques based on a pixel-by-pixel comparison are useful for many purposes, but fail to reveal important aspects of map similarities and differences. In contrast, ...
Roger White
SLOGICA
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
A Generic Framework for Adaptive Vague Logics
A generic format for adaptive vague logics is presented. The concrete adaptive vague logics based on this format are able to (1) identify sentences as vague or non-vague in the con...
Peter Verdée, Stephan van der Waart van Gul...