Title
Supporting user-defined functions on uncertain data
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.14778/2536336.2536347
PVLDB
Keywords
Field
DocType
important task,uncertain input,uncertain data,user-defined function,state-of-the-art sampling approach,general framework,guaranteed error bound,uncertain data management,output distribution,approximate output distribution,proposed gp approach
Online algorithm,Data mining,Suite,Computer science,Uncertain data,User-defined function,Gaussian process,Global Positioning System,Sampling (statistics)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
6
2150-8097
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
12
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thanh T. L. Tran12068.09
Yanlei Diao22234108.95
Charles Sutton31723107.23
Anna Liu444134.75