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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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16 years 29 days ago
OLAP on sequence data
Many kinds of real-life data exhibit logical ordering among their data items and are thus sequential in nature. However, traditional online analytical processing (OLAP) systems an...
Eric Lo, Ben Kao, Wai-Shing Ho, Sau Dan Lee, Chun ...
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SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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16 years 29 days ago
Managing information quality in e-science: the qurator workbench
Data-intensive e-science applications often rely on third-party data found in public repositories, whose quality is largely unknown. Although scientists are aware that this uncert...
Alun D. Preece, Binling Jin, Paolo Missier, R. Mar...
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SIGMOD
2007
ACM
181views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 29 days ago
Progressive and selective merge: computing top-k with ad-hoc ranking functions
The family of threshold algorithm (i.e., TA) has been widely studied for efficiently computing top-k queries. TA uses a sort-merge framework that assumes data lists are pre-sorted...
Dong Xin, Jiawei Han, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
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PODS
2008
ACM
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16 years 28 days ago
XPath, transitive closure logic, and nested tree walking automata
We consider the navigational core of XPath, extended with two operators: the Kleene star for taking the transitive closure of path expressions, and a subtree relativisation operat...
Balder ten Cate, Luc Segoufin
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ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
16 years 27 days ago
On the Uniformity of Software Evolution Patterns
Preparations for Y2K reminded the software engineering community of the extent to which long-lived software systems are embedded in our daily environments. As systems are maintain...
Evelyn J. Barry, Chris F. Kemerer, Sandra Slaughte...