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Publications (14)

cs.DB2022

Independence in Infinite Probabilistic Databases

Martin Grohe, Peter Lindner

Probabilistic databases (PDBs) model uncertainty in data. The current standard is to view PDBs as finite probability spaces over relational database instances. Since many attribute…

cs.DB2022

Generative Datalog with Continuous Distributions

Martin Grohe, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen +1

Arguing for the need to combine declarative and probabilistic programming, Bárány et al. (TODS 2017) recently introduced a probabilistic extension of Datalog as a "purely declara…

astro-ph.EP2026

Size, shape, density, and atmospheric limit of (50000) Quaoar revealed from 14 years of stellar occultation

Giuliano Margoti, Felipe Braga-Ribas, José Luis Ortiz +173

We present results from 28 stellar occultations by the large Trans-Neptunian Object (50000) Quaoar registered between 2018 and 2025. By performing a joint analysis of this occultat…

cs.DB2020

Infinite Probabilistic Databases

Martin Grohe, Peter Lindner

Probabilistic databases (PDBs) are used to model uncertainty in data in a quantitative way. In the standard formal framework, PDBs are finite probability spaces over relational dat…

cs.DB2022

Infinite Probabilistic Databases

Martin Grohe, Peter Lindner

Probabilistic databases (PDBs) model uncertainty in data in a quantitative way. In the established formal framework, probabilistic (relational) databases are finite probability spa…

cond-mat.soft2013

Learning about SANS Instruments and Data Reduction from Round Robin Measurements on Samples of Polystyrene Latex

Adrian R. Rennie, Maja S. Hellsing, Kathleen Wood +12

Measurements of a well-characterised standard sample can verify the performance of an instrument. Typically, small-angle neutron scattering instruments are used to investigate a wi…

cs.DB2022

Tuple-Independent Representations of Infinite Probabilistic Databases

Nofar Carmeli, Martin Grohe, Peter Lindner +1

Probabilistic databases (PDBs) are probability spaces over database instances. They provide a framework for handling uncertainty in databases, as occurs due to data integration, no…

astro-ph.SR2025

TESS photometry of the nova eruption in V606 Vul: asymmetric photosphere and multiple ejections?

Kirill V. Sokolovsky, Elias Aydi, Konstantin Malanchev +70

Lightcurves of many classical novae deviate from the canonical "fast rise - smooth decline" pattern and display complex variability behavior. We present the first TESS-space-photom…

cond-mat.soft2015

Nonequilibrium Structure of Colloidal Dumbbells under Oscillatory Shear

Nils Heptner, Fangfang Chu, Yan Lu +3

We investigate the nonequilibrium behavior of dense, plastic-crystalline suspensions of mildly anisotropic colloidal hard dumbbells under the action of an oscillatory shear field b…

cs.DB2024

The Importance of Parameters in Database Queries

Amir Gilad, Martin Grohe, Benny Kimelfeld +2

We propose and study a framework for quantifying the importance of the choices of parameter values to the result of a query over a database. These parameters occur as constants in…

cs.DB2023

Probabilistic Query Evaluation with Bag Semantics

Martin Grohe, Peter Lindner, Christoph Standke

We study the complexity of evaluating queries on probabilistic databases under bag semantics. We focus on self-join free conjunctive queries, and probabilistic databases where occu…

cs.DB2019

Probabilistic Databases with an Infinite Open-World Assumption

Martin Grohe, Peter Lindner

Probabilistic databases (PDBs) introduce uncertainty into relational databases by specifying probabilities for several possible instances. Traditionally, they are finite probabilit…

cs.DB2021

Probabilistic Data with Continuous Distributions

Martin Grohe, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen +1

Statistical models of real world data typically involve continuous probability distributions such as normal, Laplace, or exponential distributions. Such distributions are supported…

cond-mat.soft2009

Engineering solid-like structures via an arrested spinodal decomposition

Thomas Gibaud, Anna Stradner, Julian Oberdisse +4

The possibilities to tune the structure of solid like material resulting from arrested spinodal decomposition is investigated using a system composed of lysozyme, a globular protei…