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DKE
1999
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15 years 2 months ago
Designing Data Warehouses
A Data Warehouse DW is a database that collects and stores data from multiple remote and heterogeneous information sources. When a query is posed, it is evaluated locally, without...
Dimitri Theodoratos, Timos K. Sellis
ICDE
2010
IEEE
171views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
16 years 3 months ago
Surrogate Ranking for Very Expensive Similarity Queries
1 We consider the problem of similarity search in applications where the cost of computing the similarity between two records is very expensive, and the similarity measure is not a...
Chris Jermaine, Fei Xu, Mingxi Wu, Ravi Jampani, T...
ADC
2000
Springer
182views Database» more  ADC 2000»
15 years 6 months ago
Efficient Range Query Retrieval for Non-Uniform Data Distributions
Answering range queries is a common database operation. Methods based on hashing techniques to minimise the cost of answering range queries by taking the query distribution into a...
Salahadin Mohammed, Evan P. Harris, Kotagiri Ramam...
ISPAN
2002
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Parallel Selection Query Processing Involving Index in Parallel Database Systems
Index is an important element in databases, and the existence of index is unavoidable. When an index has been built on a particular attribute, database operations (e.g. selection,...
J. Wenny Rahayu, David Taniar
GIS
2005
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Two ellipse-based pruning methods for group nearest neighbor queries
Group nearest neighbor (GNN) queries are a relatively new type of operations in spatial database applications. Different from a traditional kNN query which specifies a single quer...
Hongga Li, Hua Lu, Bo Huang, Zhiyong Huang