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VLDB
2000
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
2000
ACM
Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...
EDBT
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
2008
ACM
Users often do not require a complete answer to their query but rather only a sample. They expect the sample to be either the largest possible or the most representative (or both)...
ICIP
1998
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
1998
IEEE
We describe a new invariant-based data model for image databases under our approach for shape-based retrieval. The data model relies on contours description of the image shape, an...
SSD
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
2005
Springer
Assume that a franchise plans to open k branches in a city, so that the average distance from each residential block to the closest branch is minimized. This is an instance of the ...
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
2009
Springer
Keyword search techniques that take advantage of XML structure make it very easy for ordinary users to query XML databases, but current approaches to processing these queries rely...