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2000
ACM
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XTRACT: A System for Extracting Document Type Descriptors from XML Documents
XML is rapidly emerging as the new standard for data representation and exchange on the Web. An XML document can be accompanied by a Document Type Descriptor (DTD) which plays the...
Minos N. Garofalakis, Aristides Gionis, Rajeev Ras...
SIGMOD
2000
ACM
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WSQ/DSQ: A Practical Approach for Combined Querying of Databases and the Web
We present WSQ/DSQ (pronounced “wisk-disk”), a new approach for combining the query facilities of traditional databases with existing search engines on the Web. WSQ, for Web-S...
Roy Goldman, Jennifer Widom
SIGMOD
2000
ACM
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A Data Model and Data Structures for Moving Objects Databases
We consider spatio-temporal databases supporting spatial objects with continuously changing position and extent, termed moving objects databases. We formally define a data model f...
Luca Forlizzi, Ralf Hartmut Güting, Enrico Na...
SIGMOD
2000
ACM
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Spatial Join Selectivity Using Power Laws
We discovered a surprising law governing the spatial join selectivity across two sets of points. An example of such a spatial join is "find the libraries that are within 10 m...
Christos Faloutsos, Bernhard Seeger, Agma J. M. Tr...
SIGMOD
2000
ACM
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Closest Pair Queries in Spatial Databases
This paper addresses the problem of finding the K closest pairs between two spatial data sets, where each set is stored in a structure belonging in the R-tree family. Five diffe...
Antonio Corral, Yannis Manolopoulos, Yannis Theodo...
SIGMOD
2000
ACM
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Finding Replicated Web Collections
Many web documents (such as JAVA FAQs) are being replicated on the Internet. Often entire document collections (such as hyperlinked Linux manuals) are being replicated many times....
Junghoo Cho, Narayanan Shivakumar, Hector Garcia-M...
SIGMOD
2000
ACM
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Synchronizing a Database to Improve Freshness
In this paper we study how to refresh a local copy of an autonomous data source to maintain the copy up-to-date. As the size of the data grows, it becomes more difficult to mainta...
Junghoo Cho, Hector Garcia-Molina
SIGMOD
2000
ACM
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NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases
Continuous queries are persistent queries that allow users to receive new results when they become available. While continuous query systems can transform a passive web into an ac...
Jianjun Chen, David J. DeWitt, Feng Tian, Yuan Wan...
SIGMOD
2000
ACM
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LOF: Identifying Density-Based Local Outliers
For many KDD applications, such as detecting criminal activities in E-commerce, finding the rare instances or the outliers, can be more interesting than finding the common pattern...
Markus M. Breunig, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Raymond T. ...
SIGMOD
2000
ACM
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TerraServer: A Spatial Data Warehouse
Microsoft® TerraServer stores aerial, satellite, and topographic images of the earth in a SQL database available via the Internet. It is the world’s largest online atlas, combi...
Tom Barclay, Donald R. Slutz, Jim Gray