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ICAIL
1999
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Generating exception structures for legal information serving
More and more legal information is available in electronic form, but traditional retrieval mechanisms are insufficient to answer questions and legal problems of most users. In the...
Radboud Winkels, D. J. B. Bosscher, A. W. F. Boer,...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
152views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
16 years 5 months ago
Efficient Merging and Filtering Algorithms for Approximate String Searches
We study the following problem: how to efficiently find in a collection of strings those similar to a given query string? Various similarity functions can be used, such as edit dis...
Chen Li, Jiaheng Lu, Yiming Lu
141
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EDBT
2006
ACM
255views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
16 years 4 months ago
FIS-by-Step: Visualization of the Fast Index Scan for Nearest Neighbor Queries
Abstract. Many different index structures have been proposed for spatial databases to support efficient query processing. However, most of these index structures suffer from an exp...
Elke Achtert, Dominik Schwald
136
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OPODIS
2004
15 years 5 months ago
Firewall Queries
Firewalls are crucial elements in network security, and have been widely deployed in most businesses and institutions for securing private networks. The function of a firewall is t...
Alex X. Liu, Mohamed G. Gouda, Huibo H. Ma, Anne H...
SIGMOD
1996
ACM
120views Database» more  SIGMOD 1996»
15 years 8 months ago
Query Execution Techniques for Caching Expensive Methods
Object-Relational and Object-Oriented DBMSs allow users to invoke time-consuming ("expensive") methods in their queries. When queries containing these expensive methods a...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Jeffrey F. Naughton