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EDBT
2008
ACM
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Ensuring correctness over untrusted private database
In this paper we address the problem of ensuring the correctness of query results returned by an untrusted private database. The database owns the data and may modify it at any ti...
Sarvjeet Singh, Sunil Prabhakar
EDBT
2008
ACM
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Self-organizing strategies for a column-store database
Column-store database systems open new vistas for improved maintenance through self-organization. Individual columns are the focal point, which simplify balancing conflicting requ...
Milena Ivanova, Martin L. Kersten, Niels Nes
EDBT
2008
ACM
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Schema merging and mapping creation for relational sources
We address the problem of generating a mediated schema from a set of relational data source schemas and conjunctive queries that specify where those schemas overlap. Unlike past a...
Rachel Pottinger, Philip A. Bernstein
EDBT
2008
ACM
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A novel spectral coding in a large graph database
Retrieving related graphs containing a query graph from a large graph database is a key issue in many graph-based applications, such as drug discovery and structural pattern recog...
Lei Zou, Lei Chen 0002, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Yansheng Lu
EDBT
2008
ACM
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Flint: Google-basing the Web
Several Web sites deliver a large number of pages, each publishing data about one instance of some real world entity, such as an athlete, a stock quote, a book. Even though it is ...
Lorenzo Blanco, Valter Crescenzi, Paolo Merialdo, ...
EDBT
2008
ACM
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On the brink: searching for drops in sensor data
Sensor networks have been widely used to collect data about the environment. When analyzing data from these systems, people tend to ask exploratory questions--they want to find su...
Gong Chen, Junghoo Cho, Mark H. Hansen
EDBT
2008
ACM
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BioScout: a life-science query monitoring system
Scientific data are available through an increasing number of heterogeneous, independently evolving, sources. Although the sources themselves are independently evolving, the data ...
Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Frank Neven, Dieter Va...
EDBT
2008
ACM
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Providing freshness guarantees for outsourced databases
Database outsourcing becomes increasingly attractive as advances in network technologies eliminate the perceived performance difference between in-house databases and outsourced d...
Min Xie, Haixun Wang, Jian Yin, Xiaofeng Meng
EDBT
2008
ACM
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OrthoCluster: a new tool for mining synteny blocks and applications in comparative genomics
By comparing genomes among both closely and distally related species, comparative genomics analysis characterizes structures and functions of different genomes in both conserved a...
Xinghuo Zeng, Matthew J. Nesbitt, Jian Pei, Ke Wan...
EDBT
2008
ACM
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Why go logarithmic if we can go linear?: Towards effective distinct counting of search traffic
Estimating the number of distinct elements in a large multiset has several applications, and hence has attracted active research in the past two decades. Several sampling and sket...
Ahmed Metwally, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi