Sumit Ganguly

A Vote to Stay the Course (2009)

Sumit Ganguly

Journal of Democracy - Volume 20, Number 4, October 2009

A new randomized algorithm for Document (2008)

Sumit Ganguly

Abstract — In today’s world, copy detection is a major problem. Students plagiarize assignments from the web and from each other. In such a scenario, we need a technique that can detect even...

The Burden of History (2008)

Sumit Ganguly

Journal of Democracy - Volume 19, Number 4, October 2008

Nuclear Stability in South Asia (2008)

Sumit Ganguly

International Security - Volume 33, Number 2, Fall 2008

India's Improbable Success (2008)

Ganguly, Sumit.

Journal of Democracy - Volume 19, Number 2, April 2008

Simpler (2008)

Lakshminath Bhuvanagiri, Sumit Ganguly, Deepanjan Kesh Ch, An Saha

algorithm for estimating frequency moments of data streams

VLDBJ manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) Tracking Set-Expression Cardinalities over Continuous Update Streams (2008)

Sumit Ganguly, Minos Garofalakis, Rajeev Rastogi

The date of receipt and acceptance will be inserted by the editor Abstract There is growing interest in algorithms for processing and querying continuous data streams (i.e., data that is seen only...

Abstract Bifocal Sampling for Skew-Resistant Join Size Estimation (2008)

Sumit Ganguly, Phillip B. Gibbons

This paper introduces bifocal sampling, a new technique for estimating the size of an equi-join of two relations. Bifocal sampling classi es tuples in each relation into two groups, sparse and dense,...

Lower bound for estimating frequency for update data streams (2008)

Ganguly, Sumit

We consider general update streams, where, the stream is a sequence of updates of the form $(index, i, v)$, where, $i in {1,2 ldots, n}$ and $v in {-1,+1}$, signifying deletion or insertion,...

of Ecient Data Transfer (2007)

Koushik Chakraborty, Manpreet Singh, To The, Dr. Deepak Gupta, Dr. Sumit Ganguly

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Design and Implementation of Algorithms for Star Query Optimization. M.Tech Thesis,, Deptt (2007)

Pinaki Chakrabarti, To The, Dr. Sumit Ganguly

has been carried out under my supervision and that this work has not been submitted elsewhere for a degree.

1 (2007)

Sergio Greco, Carlo Zaniolo, Sumit Ganguly

Abstract. We propose an algorithm for pushing min and max aggregates into recursive predicates, while preserving query equivalence under certain monotonicity constraints. The transformed query is...

Dip. Elettronica Informatica e Sistemistica (2007)

Sumit Ganguly, Sergio Greco, Carlo Zaniolo

A novel approach is proposed for expressing and computing eciently a large class of problems, including nding the shortest path in a graph, that were previously considered impervious to an ecient...

Six Decades of Independence (2007)

Ganguly, Sumit.

Journal of Democracy - Volume 18, Number 2, April 2007

Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace (review) (2007)

Ganguly, Sumit.

Journal of Cold War Studies - Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 2007

An algebraic approach to complexity of data stream computations (2007)

Ganguly, Sumit

We consider a basic problem in the general data streaming model, namely, to estimate a vector $f \in \Z^n$ that is arbitrarily updated (i.e., incremented or decremented) coordinate-wise. The estimate...

On estimating frequency moments of data streams (2007)

Sumit Ganguly, Graham Cormode

Abstract. Space-economical estimation of the pth frequency moments, defined as Fp = P n i=1 |fi|p, for p> 0, are of interest in estimating all-pairs distances in a large data matrix [14], machine...

Problem Definition Spectral Clustering of Data Streams (2007)

Manu Bansal (y, Nitin Agarwal (y, Supervisor Prof, Sumit Ganguly

We want to design a spectral clustering algorithm for data streams that uses the conductance quality measure. Guha et al [1] present a framework for clustering data streams in an online fashion....

On estimating frequency moments of data streams (2007)

Sumit Ganguly, Graham Cormode

Abstract. Space-economical estimation of the pth frequency moments, defined as Fp = �n i=1 |fi|p, for p> 0, are of interest in estimating all-pairs distances in a large data matrix [14], machine...

CR-precis: A deterministic summary structure for update data streams (2006)

Ganguly, Sumit, Majumder, Anirban

We present the \crprecis structure, that is a general-purpose, deterministic and sub-linear data structure for summarizing \emph{update} data streams. The \crprecis structure yields the \emph{first...

On estimating path aggregates over streaming graphs (2006)

Sumit Ganguly, Barna Saha

Abstract. We consider the updatable streaming graph model, where edges of a graph arrive or depart in arbitrary sequence and are processed in an online fashion using sub-linear space and time. We...

Deterministic K-set structure (2006)

Sumit Ganguly, Anirban Majumder

Abstract. A k-set structure over data streams is a bounded-space data structure that supports stream insertion and deletion operations and returns the set of (item, frequency) pairs in the stream,...

Streaming Algorithms for Robust, Real-Time Detection of DDoS Attacks (2006)

Sumit Ganguly, Minos Garofalakis, Rajeev Rastogi, Krishan Sabnani

Effective mechanisms for detecting and thwarting Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming in-creasingly important to the success of today’s Internet as a viable commercial and...

Nepal: Between Dictatorship and Anarchy (2005)

Ganguly, Sumit., Shoup, Brian.

Journal of Democracy - Volume 16, Number 4, October 2005

Join-Distinct aggregate estimation over update streams (2005)

Sumit Ganguly, Iit Kanpur, Minos Garofalakis

There is growing interest in algorithms for processing and querying continuous data streams (i.e., data that is seen only once in a fixed order) with limited memory resources. Providing (perhaps...

Join-Distinct aggregate estimation over update streams (2005)

Sumit Ganguly, Iit Kanpur, Minos Garofalakis

There is growing interest in algorithms for processing and querying continuous data streams (i.e., data that is seen only once in a fixed order) with limited memory resources. Providing (perhaps...

Estimating frequency moments of data streams using random linear combinations (2004)

Sumit Ganguly

Abstract. The problem of estimating the k th frequency moment Fk for any nonnegative k, over a data stream by looking at the items exactly once as they arrive, was considered in a seminal paper by...

Distributed Set-Expression Cardinality Estimation (2004)

Abhinandan Das, Sumit Ganguly, Minos Garofalakis, Rajeev Rastogi

We consider the problem of estimating set-expression cardinality in a distributed streaming environment where rapid update streams originating at remote sites are continually transmitted to a central...

Processing data-stream join aggregates using skimmed sketches (2004)

Sumit Ganguly, Minos Garofalakis, Rajeev Rastogi

sganguly,minos,rastogi¡ Abstract. There is a growing interest in on-line algorithms for analyzing and querying data streams, that examine each stream element only once and have at their disposal,...

The Crisis of Indian Secularism (2003)

Ganguly, Sumit.

Journal of Democracy - Volume 14, Number 4, October 2003

ROLEX: Relational On-Line Exchange with XML (2003)

Philip Bohannon, Chengkai Li, Sumit Ganguly, Henry F. Korth, Xin (Luna) Dong, ...

uses a navigational profile for the user or application when it optimizes view-query plans. While navigational profiles can, in principle, be quite complex, we currently adopt a very simple model. If...

India's Multiple Revolutions (2002)

Ganguly, Sumit.

Journal of Democracy - Volume 13, Number 1, January 2002

On the Complexity of Database Query Optimization (2001)

Sai Surya, Kiran Evani, To The, Dr. Sumit Ganguly

In this thesis, we consider the complexity of computing the optimal join order sequences for star queries and general queries. We consider the following join methods in our thesis - indexed nested...

Design and Analysis of Parametric Query Optimization Algorithms (1998)

Sumit Ganguly

Query optimizers normally compile queries into one optimal plan by assuming complete knowledge of all cost parameters such as selec-tivity and resource availability. The execution of such plans could...

Bifocal Sampling for Skew-Resistant Join Size Estimation (1996)

Sumit Ganguly, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, Avi Silberschatz

This paper introduces bifocal sampling, a new technique for estimating the size of an equi-join of two relations. Bifocal sampling classifies tuples in each relation into two groups, sparse and...

Optimizing Queries for Coarse Grain Parallelism (1993)

Sumit Ganguly, Weining Wang

We consider the problem of optimizing select-project-join relational queries for minimum response time on parallel machines. The design of the optimizer is based on three ideas: (1) the concept and...

Fast Search Methods for Biological Sequence Databases (1993)

Sumit Ganguly, Jerry Leichter, Michiel Noordewier

Biology researchers have a pressing need for data management technologies which will make the storage and retrieval of DNA and protein sequence data accurate and efficient. The volume of data...

Query Optimization in Mobile Environments (1993)

Sumit Ganguly, Rafael Alonzo

We consider the issue of optimizing queries for a distributed processing in mobile environment. An interesting characteristic of mobile machines is that they depend on battery as a source of energy...

Greedy by Choice (1992)

Sergio Greco, Carlo Zaniolo, Sumit Ganguly

The greedy paradigm of algorithm design is a well known tool used for efficiently solving many classical computational problems within the framework of pro-cedural languages. However, it is very...

Energy Efficient Query Optimization (1992)

Rafael Alonso, Sumit Ganguly

Recently, a number of small yet powerful mobile computers have appeared on the market. Endowed with large disk capacity and network hardware, such systems are capable of holding large amounts of...