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DAGSTUHL
1998
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A Practical Approach to Hypothetical Database Queries
Hypothetical queries are queries embedding hypotheses about the database. The embedded hypothesis in a hypothetical query indicates, so to say, a state of the database intended for...
Henning Christiansen, Troels Andreasen
CIDR
2003
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SkyQuery: A Web Service Approach to Federate Databases
Traditional science searched for new objects and phenomena that led to discoveries. Tomorrow's science will combine together the large pool of information in scientific archi...
Tanu Malik, Alexander S. Szalay, Tamas Budavari, A...
ICDE
2009
IEEE
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Reverse Furthest Neighbors in Spatial Databases
Given a set of points P and a query point q, the reverse furthest neighbor (RFN) query fetches the set of points p P such that q is their furthest neighbor among all points in P {...
Bin Yao, Feifei Li, Piyush Kumar
CIDR
2009
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Principles for Inconsistency
Data consistency is very desirable because strong semantic properties make it easier to write correct programs that perform as users expect. However, there are good reasons why co...
Shel Finkelstein, Dean Jacobs, Rainer Brendle
ICDE
2009
IEEE
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Space-Constrained Gram-Based Indexing for Efficient Approximate String Search
Abstract-- Answering approximate queries on string collections is important in applications such as data cleaning, query relaxation, and spell checking, where inconsistencies and e...
Alexander Behm, Shengyue Ji, Chen Li, Jiaheng Lu