81 research outputs found
Data Management Perspectives on Prescriptive Analytics (Invited Talk)
No full textDecision makers in a broad range of domains, such as finance, transportation, manufacturing, and healthcare, often need to derive optimal decisions given a set of constraints and objectives. Traditional solutions to such constrained optimization problems are typically application-specific, complex, and do not generalize. Further, the usual workflow requires slow, cumbersome, and error-prone data movement between a database, and predictive-modeling and optimization packages. All of these problems are exacerbated by the unprecedented size of modern data-intensive optimization problems. The emerging research area of in-database prescriptive analytics aims to provide seamless domain-independent, declarative, and scalable approaches powered by the system where the data typically resides: the database. Integrating optimization with database technology opens up prescriptive analytics to a much broader community, amplifying its benefits. We discuss how deep integration between the DBMS, predictive models, and optimization software creates opportunities for rich prescriptive-query functionality with good scalability and performance. Summarizing some of our main results and ongoing work in this area, we highlight challenges related to usability, scalability, data uncertainty, and dynamic environments, and argue that perspectives from data management research can drive novel strategies and solutions
A Look at the Condition of Women in Malentendues by Azza Filali
No full textA Look at the Female Condition in Malentendues by Azza Filali
This article analyzes the female condition through the central character of Malentendus by Azza Filali. It explores the tensions between social injunctions and individual aspirations, highlighting how the author constructs a female figure striving for emancipation in a Tunisian context marked by deep contradictions. The study examines the narrative and discursive strategies that reveal the obstacles, resistances, and ambiguities shaping the character’s journey. Adopting a literary and socio-critical approach, this article investigates the representation of power dynamics and identity issues in the novelCe travail propose une analyse de la condition féminine à travers le personnage central de Malentendues d’Azza Filali. Il s’agit d’explorer les tensions entre injonctions sociales et aspirations individuelles, mettant en avant la manière dont la romancière présente une figure féminine en quête d’émancipation dans un contexte tunisien marqué par des contradictions majeures. L’article examine les stratégies narratives et discursives qui révèlent les obstacles, les résistances et les ambiguïtés du parcours de ce personnage. En adoptant une approche sociocritique, ce travail interroge la représentation des rapports de pouvoir et des dynamiques identitaires à l’œuvre dans le roman
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