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Submitted on 26th of February 2000
Author Feder, T.; Motwani, R.; Panigrahy, R.; Olston, C.; Widom, J.
Title Computing the Median With Uncertainty
Date of publication 1999
Citation T. Feder,R. Motwani,R. Panigrahy,C. Olston,J. Widom: Computing the Median With Uncertainty. 32nd ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2000), Portland, Oregon, May 2000.
Language English
Project MIDAS; TRAPP
Type Conference or Journal Paper
Subject group Data Mining
Abstract We consider a new model for computing with uncertainty. It is desired to compute a function f(X_1,...,X_n) where X_1,...,X_n are unknown, but guaranteed to lie in specified intervals I_1,...,I_n. It is possible to query the precise value of any X_j at a cost c_j. The goal is to pin down the value of f to within a precision p at a minimum possible cost. We focus on the selection function f which returns the value of the kth smallest argument. We present optimal offline and online algorithms for this problem.
Keywords TRAPP, replication system, bounded replication
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