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SSDBM
2008
IEEE
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15 years 9 months ago
Query Planning for Searching Inter-dependent Deep-Web Databases
Increasingly, many data sources appear as online databases, hidden behind query forms, thus forming what is referred to as the deep web. It is desirable to have systems that can pr...
Fan Wang, Gagan Agrawal, Ruoming Jin
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
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15 years 7 months ago
Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation
Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we ...
Yossi Matias, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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13 years 5 months ago
Tiresias: the database oracle for how-to queries
How-To queries answer fundamental data analysis questions of the form: “How should the input change in order to achieve the desired output”. As a Reverse Data Management probl...
Alexandra Meliou, Dan Suciu
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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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16 years 3 months ago
MCDB: a monte carlo approach to managing uncertain data
To deal with data uncertainty, existing probabilistic database systems augment tuples with attribute-level or tuple-level probability values, which are loaded into the database al...
Ravi Jampani, Fei Xu, Mingxi Wu, Luis Leopoldo Per...
SEMWEB
2010
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Using Reformulation Trees to Optimize Queries over Distributed Heterogeneous Sources
Abstract. In order to effectively and quickly answer queries in environments with distributed RDF/OWL, we present a query optimization algorithm to identify the potentially relevan...
Yingjie Li, Jeff Heflin