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2005
ACM
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Multi-structural databases
We introduce the Multi-Structural Database, a new data framework to support efficient analysis of large, complex data sets. An instance of the model consists of a set of data obje...
Ronald Fagin, Ramanathan V. Guha, Ravi Kumar, Jasm...
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2005
ACM
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Histograms revisited: when are histograms the best approximation method for aggregates over joins?
The traditional statistical assumption for interpreting histograms and justifying approximate query processing methods based on them is that all elements in a bucket have the same...
Alin Dobra
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2005
ACM
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Determining source contribution in integration systems
Owners of sources registered in an information integration system, which provides answers to a (potentially evolving) set of client queries, need to know their contribution to the...
Alin Deutsch, Yannis Katsis, Yannis Papakonstantin...
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2005
ACM
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Space efficient mining of multigraph streams
The challenge of monitoring massive amounts of data generated by communication networks has led to the interest in data stream processing. We study streams of edges in massive com...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan
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2005
ACM
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A divide-and-merge methodology for clustering
We present a divide-and-merge methodology for clustering a set of objects that combines a top-down "divide" phase with a bottom-up "merge" phase. In contrast, ...
David Cheng, Santosh Vempala, Ravi Kannan, Grant W...
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2005
ACM
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XPath satisfiability in the presence of DTDs
We study the satisfiability problem associated with XPath in the presence of DTDs. This is the problem of determining, given a query p in an XPath fragment and a DTD D, whether or...
Michael Benedikt, Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts
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2005
ACM
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Estimating arbitrary subset sums with few probes
Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
Noga Alon, Nick G. Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel ...
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2005
ACM
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Buffering in query evaluation over XML streams
All known algorithms for evaluating advanced XPath queries (e.g., ones with predicates or with closure axes) on XML streams employ buffers to temporarily store fragments of the do...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Marcus Fontoura, Vanja Josifovski
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2005
ACM
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Regular rewriting of active XML and unambiguity
We consider here the exchange of Active XML (AXML) data, i.e., XML documents where some of the data is given explicitly while other parts are given only intensionally as calls to ...
Serge Abiteboul, Tova Milo, Omar Benjelloun
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2005
ACM
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XML data exchange: consistency and query answering
Marcelo Arenas, Leonid Libkin