Data is dead... Without what-if models

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1486-1489

  Haas, Peter J ^a   Maglio, Paul P ^a   Selinger, Patricia G ^a   Tan, Wang Chiew ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; DATABASE COMMUNITY; DATABASE TECHNOLOGY; ENGINEERING DECISIONS; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; QUERY OPTIMIZATION; REAL-WORLD COMPLEXITY; STATISTICAL FORECASTING; FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS; WHAT-IF ANALYSIS;

OPTIMIZATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; QUERY PROCESSING;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DATA INTEGRATION;

EID: 84863752139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508097     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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