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SIGMOD
2005
ACM
89views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
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Stacked indexed views in microsoft SQL server
Appropriately selected materialized views (also called indexed views) can speed up query execution by orders of magnitude. Most database systems limit support for materialized vie...
David DeHaan, Per-Åke Larson, Jingren Zhou
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
107views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
15 years 7 months ago
Using value queries in combinatorial auctions
Combinatorial auctions, where bidders can bid on bundles of items are known to be desirable auction mechanisms for selling items that are complementary and/or substitutable. Howev...
Benoît Hudson, Tuomas Sandholm
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ICFP
1999
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Type Dispatch for Named Hierarchical Types
Type dispatch constructs are an important feature of many programming languages. Scheme has predicates for testing the runtime type of a value. Java has a class cast expression an...
Neal Glew
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ICMCS
1999
IEEE
131views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 1999»
15 years 6 months ago
Integrating Web Resources and Lexicons into a Natural Language Query System
The START system responds to natural language queries with answers in text, pictures, and other media. START's sentence-level natural language parsing relies on a number of m...
Boris Katz, Deniz Yuret, Jimmy J. Lin, Sue Felshin...
IPPS
1999
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Using Channels for Multimedia Communication
In this paper we present a paradigm to express streams and its implementation. Streams are a convenient mechanism to communicate multimedia data, for example video or audio, betwe...
David May, Henk L. Muller