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ICDE
2008
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
A Clustered Index Approach to Distributed XPath Processing
Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...
Georgia Koloniari, Evaggelia Pitoura
JIDM
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Evaluation of Conditional Preference Queries
The need for incorporating preference querying in database technology is a very important issue in a variety of applications ranging from e-commerce to personalized search engines....
Fabiola S. F. Pereira, Sandra de Amo
GIS
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Handling semantic heterogeneities using declarative agreements
The focus of this paper is on interoperability issues to achieve data integration in distributed databases for geographic applications. Our concrete application is in the context ...
Isabel F. Cruz, Afsheen Rajendran, William Sunna, ...
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models
Estimating the result size of complex queries that involve selection on multiple attributes and the join of several relations is a difficult but fundamental task in database query...
Lise Getoor, Benjamin Taskar, Daphne Koller
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
An Optimal Algorithm for Querying Tree Structures and its Applications in Bioinformatics
Trees and graphs are widely used to model biological databases. Providing efficient algorithms to support tree-based or graph-based querying is therefore an important issue. In th...
Hsiao-Fei Liu, Ya-Hui Chang, Kun-Mao Chao