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OSDI
2004
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Automatic Misconfiguration Troubleshooting with PeerPressure
Technical support contributes 17% of the total cost of ownership of today's desktop PCs [25]. An important element of technical support is troubleshooting misconfigured appli...
Helen J. Wang, John C. Platt, Yu Chen, Ruyun Zhang...
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VLDB
2007
ACM
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A Cost-Estimation Component for Statement Sequences
Query generators producing sequences of SQL statements are embedded in many applications. As the execution time of such sequences is often far from optimal, their optimization is ...
Tobias Kraft
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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16 years 3 months ago
Privacy preservation of aggregates in hidden databases: why and how?
Many websites provide form-like interfaces which allow users to execute search queries on the underlying hidden databases. In this paper, we explain the importance of protecting s...
Arjun Dasgupta, Nan Zhang, Gautam Das, Surajit Cha...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
150views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 3 months ago
Ranking queries on uncertain data: a probabilistic threshold approach
Uncertain data is inherent in a few important applications such as environmental surveillance and mobile object tracking. Top-k queries (also known as ranking queries) are often n...
Ming Hua, Jian Pei, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin
EDBT
2008
ACM
160views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
16 years 3 months ago
Why go logarithmic if we can go linear?: Towards effective distinct counting of search traffic
Estimating the number of distinct elements in a large multiset has several applications, and hence has attracted active research in the past two decades. Several sampling and sket...
Ahmed Metwally, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi