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GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Distance join queries on spatial networks
The result of a distance join operation on two sets of objects R, S on a spatial network G is a set P of object pairs <p, q>, p R, q S such that the distance of an object ...
Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Houman Alborzi, Hanan Same...
VLDB
2006
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Answering queries using materialized views with minimum size
In this paper we study the following problem. Given a database and a set of queries, we want to find a set of views that can compute the answers to the queries, such that the amoun...
Rada Chirkova, Chen Li, Jia Li
PODS
2003
ACM
114views Database» more  PODS 2003»
15 years 10 months ago
An information-theoretic approach to normal forms for relational and XML data
Normalization as a way of producing good database designs is a well-understood topic. However, the same problem of distinguishing well-designed databases from poorly designed ones...
Marcelo Arenas, Leonid Libkin
EDBT
2006
ACM
136views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Optimizing Monitoring Queries over Distributed Data
Scientific data in the life sciences is distributed over various independent multi-format databases and is constantly expanding. We discuss a scenario where a life science research...
Frank Neven, Dieter Van de Craen
DASFAA
1997
IEEE
112views Database» more  DASFAA 1997»
15 years 2 months ago
Client-Server Optimization for Multimedia Document Exchange
The success of the World Wide Web is boosting the development of multimedia database systems and their integration into the internet. For the documents stored and exchanged in the...
Gerhard Köstler, Wolfgang L. J. Kowarschick, ...