515 research outputs found
Supporting User-Defined Functions on Uncertain Data
Uncertain data management has become crucial in many sensing and scientific applications. As user-defined functions (UDFs) become widely used in these applications, an important task is to capture result uncertainty for queries that evaluate UDFs on uncertain data. In this work, we provide a general framework for supporting UDFs on uncertain data. Specifically, we propose a learning approach based on Gaussian processes (GPs) to compute approximate output distributions of a UDF when evaluated on uncertain input, with guaranteed error bounds. We also devise an online algorithm to compute such output distributions, which employs a suite of optimizations to improve accuracy and performance. Our evaluation using both real-world and synthetic functions shows that our proposed GP approach can outperform the state-of-the-art sampling approach with up to two orders of magnitude improvement for a variety of UDFs. 1
MalStone: Towards A Benchmark for Analytics on Large Data Clouds
Developing data mining algorithms that are suitable for cloud computing
platforms is currently an active area of research, as is developing cloud
computing platforms appropriate for data mining. Currently, the most common
benchmark for cloud computing is the Terasort (and related) benchmarks.
Although the Terasort Benchmark is quite useful, it was not designed for data
mining per se. In this paper, we introduce a benchmark called MalStone that is
specifically designed to measure the performance of cloud computing middleware
that supports the type of data intensive computing common when building data
mining models. We also introduce MalGen, which is a utility for generating data
on clouds that can be used with MalStone
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