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ICDE
2000
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
Accurate Estimation of the Cost of Spatial Selections
Optimizing queries that involve operations on spatial data requires estimating the selectivity and cost of these operations. In this paper, we focus on estimating the cost of spat...
Ashraf Aboulnaga, Jeffrey F. Naughton
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Continuous obstructed nearest neighbor queries in spatial databases
In this paper, we study a novel form of continuous nearest neighbor queries in the presence of obstacles, namely continuous obstructed nearest neighbor (CONN) search. It considers...
Yunjun Gao, Baihua Zheng
VLDB
1994
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
The Impact of Global Clustering on Spatial Database Systems
Global clustering has rarely been investigated in the area of spatial database systems although dramatic performance improvements can be achieved by using suitable techniques. In ...
Thomas Brinkhoff, Hans-Peter Kriegel
AIIA
2007
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Linguistically Informed IR in Question Answering
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
Jörg Tiedemann
APWEB
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Multiresolution Spatial Databases: Making Web-Based Spatial Applications Faster
Abstract. Spatial data has now been used extensively in the Web environment, providing online customized maps and supporting map-based applications. The full potential of Web-based...
Xiaofang Zhou, Sham Prasher, Sai Sun, Kai Xu 0003