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SSD
2009
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
Query Integrity Assurance of Location-Based Services Accessing Outsourced Spatial Databases
Outsourcing data to third party data providers is becoming a common practice for data owners to avoid the cost of managing and maintaining databases. Meanwhile, due to the populari...
Wei-Shinn Ku, Ling Hu, Cyrus Shahabi, Haixun Wang
WWW
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Addressing people's information needs directly in a web search result page
Web search engines have historically focused on connecting people with information resources. For example, if a person wanted to know when their flight to Hyderabad was leaving, a...
Lydia B. Chilton, Jaime Teevan
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VLDB
2005
ACM
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16 years 3 months ago
Model-based approximate querying in sensor networks
Abstract Declarative queries are proving to be an attractive paradigm for interacting with networks of wireless sensors. The metaphor that "the sensornet is a database" i...
Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Samuel Madden, Jo...
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BALT
2006
15 years 7 months ago
Introducing Softness into Inductive Queries on String Databases
In many application domains (e.g., WWW mining, molecular biology), large string datasets are available and yet under-exploited. The inductive database framework assumes that both s...
Ieva Mitasiunaite, Jean-François Boulicaut
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SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Multiple sources of evidence for XML retrieval
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags. The tags add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid...
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, Maart...