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SSD
1997
Springer
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15 years 7 months ago
Vague Regions
Abstract: In many geographical applications there is a need to model spatial phenomena not simply by sharp objects but rather through indeterminate or vague concepts. To support su...
Martin Erwig, Markus Schneider
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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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16 years 3 months ago
FERRY: database-supported program execution
We demonstrate the language Ferry and its editing, compilation, and execution environment FerryDeck. Ferry's type system and operations match those of scripting or programmin...
Torsten Grust, Manuel Mayr, Jan Rittinger, Tom Sch...
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
109views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
16 years 3 months ago
Query-Sensitive Embeddings
A common problem in many types of databases is retrieving the most similar matches to a query object. Finding those matches in a large database can be too slow to be practical, es...
Vassilis Athitsos, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George...
ICDM
2009
IEEE
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15 years 10 months ago
Resolving Identity Uncertainty with Learned Random Walks
A pervasive problem in large relational databases is identity uncertainty which occurs when multiple entries in a database refer to the same underlying entity in the world. Relati...
Ted Sandler, Lyle H. Ungar, Koby Crammer
CRYPTO
2008
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
New Efficient Attacks on Statistical Disclosure Control Mechanisms
The goal of a statistical database is to provide statistics about a population while simultaneously protecting the privacy of the individual records in the database. The tension be...
Cynthia Dwork, Sergey Yekhanin