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SSD
2005
Springer
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15 years 8 months ago
On Trip Planning Queries in Spatial Databases
In this paper we discuss a new type of query in Spatial Databases, called the Trip Planning Query (TPQ). Given a set of points of interest P in space, where each point belongs to ...
Feifei Li, Dihan Cheng, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, G...
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AAAI
2007
15 years 5 months ago
GRIN: A Graph Based RDF Index
RDF (“Resource Description Framework”) is now a widely used World Wide Web Consortium standard. However, methods to index large volumes of RDF data are still in their infancy....
Octavian Udrea, Andrea Pugliese, V. S. Subrahmania...
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ICDE
2008
IEEE
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16 years 4 months ago
Network-Aware Join Processing in Global-Scale Database Federations
Abstract-- We introduce join scheduling algorithms that employ a balanced network utilization metric to optimize the use of all network paths in a global-scale database federation....
Xiaodan Wang, Randal C. Burns, Andreas Terzis, Amo...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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16 years 3 months ago
Do we mean the same?: disambiguation of extracted keyword queries for database search
Users often try to accumulate information on a topic of interest from multiple information sources. In this case a user's informational need might be expressed in terms of an...
Elena Demidova, Irina Oelze, Peter Fankhauser
VLDB
2002
ACM
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16 years 3 months ago
A formal perspective on the view selection problem
The view selection problem is to choose a set of views to materialize over a database schema, such that the cost of evaluating a set of workload queries is minimized and such that ...
Rada Chirkova, Alon Y. Halevy, Dan Suciu