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ERCIMDL
2009
Springer
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15 years 7 months ago
Demonstration of User Interfaces for Querying in 3D Architectural Content in PROBADO3D
Abstract. The PROBADO project is a research effort to develop Digital Library support for non-textual documents. The main goal is to contribute to all parts of the Digital Library...
René Bernd, Ina Blümel, Harald Krottma...
FOCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Kakeya Sets, New Mergers and Old Extractors
A merger is a probabilistic procedure which extracts the randomness out of any (arbitrarily correlated) set of random variables, as long as one of them is uniform. Our main result...
Zeev Dvir, Avi Wigderson
BTW
2005
Springer
113views Database» more  BTW 2005»
15 years 6 months ago
A Learning Optimizer for a Federated Database Management System
: Optimizers in modern DBMSs utilize a cost model to choose an efficient query execution plan (QEP) among all possible ones for a given query. The accuracy of the cost estimates de...
Stephan Ewen, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Volker ...
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VLDB
2004
ACM
124views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
15 years 6 months ago
Automated Statistics Collection in DB2 UDB
The use of inaccurate or outdated database statistics by the query optimizer in a relational DBMS often results in a poor choice of query execution plans and hence unacceptably lo...
Ashraf Aboulnaga, Peter J. Haas, Sam Lightstone, G...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
175views Education» more  SIGCSE 2010»
15 years 5 months ago
MPCT: media propelled computational thinking
Media-Propelled Computational Thinking (MPCT – pronounced impact) is a course designed to introduce programming in the context of engaging problems in media computation, math, a...
Eric Andrew Freudenthal, Mary K. Roy, Alexandria N...