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2008
ACM
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15 years 9 months ago
Data exchange and schema mappings in open and closed worlds
In the study of data exchange one usually assumes an openworld semantics, making it possible to extend instances of target schemas. An alternative closed-world semantics only move...
Leonid Libkin, Cristina Sirangelo
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
The price of democracy in coalition formation
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...
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PODS
2010
ACM
150views Database» more  PODS 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
Understanding queries in a search database system
It is well known that a search engine can significantly benefit from an auxiliary database, which can suggest interpretations of the search query by means of the involved concep...
Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Yunyao Li, Sriram R...
PODS
2011
ACM
238views Database» more  PODS 2011»
14 years 14 days ago
Beyond simple aggregates: indexing for summary queries
Database queries can be broadly classified into two categories: reporting queries and aggregation queries. The former retrieves a collection of records from the database that mat...
Zhewei Wei, Ke Yi
ECCC
2010
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14 years 9 months ago
PCPs and the Hardness of Generating Synthetic Data
Assuming the existence of one-way functions, we show that there is no polynomial-time, differentially private algorithm A that takes a database D ({0, 1}d )n and outputs a "...
Jonathan Ullman, Salil P. Vadhan