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ICDE
2008
IEEE
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16 years 3 months ago
Explaining and Reformulating Authority Flow Queries
Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic ...
Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Louiqa...
SIGMOD
1995
ACM
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15 years 5 months ago
Semantic Assumptions and Query Evaluation in Temporal Databases
When querying a temporal database, a user often makes certain semantic assumptions on stored temporal data. This paper formalizes and studies two types of semantic assumptions: po...
Claudio Bettini, Xiaoyang Sean Wang, Elisa Bertino...
GIS
2008
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
The multi-rule partial sequenced route query
Trip planning search (TPS) represents an important class of queries in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In many real-world applications, TPS requests are issued with a number...
Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, Roger Zimm...
DEXA
2003
Springer
149views Database» more  DEXA 2003»
15 years 7 months ago
Capturing Uncertainty in Spatial Queries over Imprecise Data
Emerging applications using miniature electronic devices (e.g., tracking mobile objects using sensors) generate very large amounts of highly dynamic data that poses very high overh...
Xingbo Yu, Sharad Mehrotra
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
198views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 1 months ago
Addressing diverse user preferences in SQL-query-result navigation
Database queries are often exploratory and users often find their queries return too many answers, many of them irrelevant. Existing work either categorizes or ranks the results t...
Zhiyuan Chen, Tao Li