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2007
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Evaluation of probabilistic queries over imprecise data in constantly-evolving environments
Sensors are often employed to monitor continuously changing entities like locations of moving objects and temperature. The sensor readings are reported to a database system, and a...
Reynold Cheng, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sunil Prabha...
IS
2007
13 years 4 months ago
Efficient processing of XPath queries using indexes
: A number of indexing techniques have been proposed in recent times for optimizing the queries on XML and other semistructured data models. Most of the semistructured models use t...
Sanjay Kumar Madria, Yan Chen, Kalpdrum Passi, Sou...
IS
2007
13 years 4 months ago
The leganet system: Freshness-aware transaction routing in a database cluster
We consider the use of a database cluster for Application Service Provider (ASP). In the ASP context, applications and databases can be update-intensive and must remain autonomous....
Stéphane Gançarski, Hubert Naacke, E...
IS
2007
13 years 4 months ago
Formalizing the evolution of virtual communities
Collaboration increasingly takes place in virtual communities using the Internet. These communities are socio-technical systems that tend to evolve strongly and become more comple...
Aldo de Moor, Hans Weigand
IS
2007
13 years 4 months ago
Branch-and-bound processing of ranked queries
Despite the importance of ranked queries in numerous applications involving multi-criteria decision making, they are not efficiently supported by traditional database systems. In ...
Yufei Tao, Vagelis Hristidis, Dimitris Papadias, Y...
IS
2007
13 years 4 months ago
Browsing large online data tables using generalized query previews
Companies, government agencies, and other organizations are making their data available to the world over the Internet. They often use large online relational tables for this purp...
Egemen Tanin, Ben Shneiderman, Hairuo Xie
IS
2007
13 years 4 months ago
A configurable reference modelling language
Enterprise Systems (ES) are comprehensive off-the-shelf packages that have to be configured to suit the requirements of an organization. Most ES solutions provide reference models...
Michael Rosemann, Wil M. P. van der Aalst
IS
2007
13 years 4 months ago
Schema-conscious XML indexing
User queries on extensible markup language (XML) documents are typically expressed as regular path expressions. A variety of indexing techniques for efficiently retrieving the re...
Krishna P. Leela, Jayant R. Haritsa
IS
2007
13 years 4 months ago
Fast similarity join for multi-dimensional data
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sunil Prabhakar