Sciweavers

2228 search results - page 147 / 446
» A System for Semantic Query Optimization
Sort
View
IS
2008
14 years 10 months ago
The complexity and approximation of fixing numerical attributes in databases under integrity constraints
Consistent query answering is the problem of characterizing and computing the semantically correct answers to queries from a database that may not satisfy certain integrity constr...
Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Loreto Bravo, Enrico Francon...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Refining Keyword Queries for XML Retrieval by Combining Content and Structure
Abstract. The structural heterogeneity and complexity of XML repositories makes query formulation challenging for users who have little knowledge of XML. To assist its users, an XM...
Desislava Petkova, W. Bruce Croft, Yanlei Diao
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
110views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Supporting ad-hoc ranking aggregates
This paper presents a principled framework for efficient processing of ad-hoc top-k (ranking) aggregate queries, which provide the k groups with the highest aggregates as results....
Chengkai Li, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Ihab F. Ilyas
81
Voted
QSIC
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Proving the Safety of SQL Queries
Many programs need to access data in a relational database. This is usually done by means of queries written in SQL. Although the language SQL is declarative, certain runtime erro...
Stefan Brass, Christian Goldberg
EDBT
2006
ACM
191views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Parallelizing Skyline Queries for Scalable Distribution
Skyline queries help users make intelligent decisions over complex data, where different and often conflicting criteria are considered. Current skyline computation methods are rest...
Ping Wu, Caijie Zhang, Ying Feng, Ben Y. Zhao, Div...