inria-00537632, version 1
Aggregate Queries for Discrete and Continuous Probabilistic XML
Serge Abiteboul
1T-H. Hubert Chan
2Evgeny Kharlamov
3Werner Nutt
3Pierre Senellart
4
International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) (2010) 50-61
Résumé : Sources of data uncertainty and imprecision are numerous. A way to handle this uncertainty is to associate probabilistic annotations to data. Many such probabilistic database models have been proposed, both in the relational and in the semi-structured setting. The latter is particularly well adapted to the management of uncertain data coming from a variety of automatic processes. An important problem, in the context of probabilistic XML databases, is that of answering aggregate queries (count, sum, avg, etc.), which has received limited attention so far. In a model unifying the various (discrete) semi-structured probabilistic models studied up to now, we present algorithms to compute the distribution of the aggregation values (exploiting some regularity proper- ties of the aggregate functions) and probabilistic moments (especially, expectation and variance) of this distribution. We also prove the intractability of some of these problems and investigate approximation techniques. We finally extend the discrete model to a continuous one, in order to take into account continuous data values, such as measurements from sensor networks, and present algorithms to compute distribution functions and moments for various classes of continuous distributions of data values.
- 1 : DAHU (INRIA Saclay - Ile de France)
- INRIA – Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Cachan – CNRS : UMR8643
- 2 : Department of Computer Science [Hong Kong]
- City University of Hong Kong
- 3 : KRDB Research Centre (KRDB)
- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- 4 : Institut Télécom - Télécom ParisTech
- Télécom ParisTech
- Domaine : Informatique/Base de données
- Référence interne : PS:ICDT-10
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- Contributeur : Evgeny Kharlamov
- Soumis le : Vendredi 19 Novembre 2010, 10:57:47
- Dernière modification le : Vendredi 8 Février 2013, 16:02:16






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