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CIKM
2010
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Visual-semantic graphs: using queries to reduce the semantic gap in web image retrieval
We explore the application of a graph representation to model similarity relationships that exist among images found on the Web. The resulting similarity-induced graph allows us t...
Barbara Poblete, Benjamin Bustos, Marcelo Mendoza,...
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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
175views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
16 years 3 months ago
Keyword search on structured and semi-structured data
Empowering users to access databases using simple keywords can relieve the users from the steep learning curve of mastering a structured query language and understanding complex a...
Yi Chen, Wei Wang 0011, Ziyang Liu, Xuemin Lin
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PDIS
1996
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Querying the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a large, heterogeneous, distributedcollectionof documents connected by hypertext links. The most common technologycurrently used for searching the Web depend...
Alberto O. Mendelzon, George A. Mihaila, Tova Milo
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ICDE
2003
IEEE
138views Database» more  ICDE 2003»
16 years 5 months ago
Using State Modules for Adaptive Query Processing
We present a query architecture in which join operators are decomposed into their constituent data structures (State Modules, or SteMs), and dataflow among these SteMs is managed ...
Vijayshankar Raman, Amol Deshpande, Joseph M. Hell...
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PODS
2000
ACM
146views Database» more  PODS 2000»
15 years 8 months ago
Analysis and Application of Adaptive Sampling
An estimation algorithm for a query is a probabilistic algorithm that computes an approximation for the size (number of tuples) of the query. One class of estimation algorithms us...
James F. Lynch