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CIKM
1997
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Using a Sequential Index in Terrain-Aided Navigation
Terrain-aided navigation is a database application in which an aeroplane locates itself by matching the height trajectory with a terrain-elevation map on board the aircraft. Witho...
Ling Lin, Tore Risch
PODS
2010
ACM
215views Database» more  PODS 2010»
15 years 8 months ago
An optimal algorithm for the distinct elements problem
We give the first optimal algorithm for estimating the number of distinct elements in a data stream, closing a long line of theoretical research on this problem begun by Flajolet...
Daniel M. Kane, Jelani Nelson, David P. Woodruff
SSDBM
2007
IEEE
127views Database» more  SSDBM 2007»
15 years 9 months ago
Update Conscious Bitmap Indices
Bitmap indices have been widely used in several domains such as data warehousing and scientific applications due to their efficiency in answering certain query types over large ...
Guadalupe Canahuate, Michael Gibas, Hakan Ferhatos...
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SAC
2006
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Automatic structured query transformation over distributed digital libraries
Structured data and complex schemas are becoming the main way to represent the information many Digital Libraries provide, thus impacting the services they offer. When searching i...
M. Elena Renda, Umberto Straccia
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SPIESR
2001
174views Database» more  SPIESR 2001»
15 years 5 months ago
Mapping low-level image features to semantic concepts
Humans tend to use high-level semantic concepts when querying and browsing multimedia databases; there is thus, a need for systems that extract these concepts and make available a...
Daniela Stan, Ishwar K. Sethi