PVLDB
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
We consider the problem of efficiently finding the top-k answers for join queries over web-accessible databases. Classical algorithms for finding top-k answers use branch-and-b...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Ranking of query/search answers, although introduced by early information retrieval systems, has become mandatory for internet searches. When the answers of a query or search are ...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
Modern enterprise applications are forced to deal with unreliable, inconsistent and imprecise information. Probabilistic databases can model such data naturally, but SQL query eva...