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URBAN
2008
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15 years 2 months ago
Automatic identification of urban settlement boundaries for multiple representation databases
Intuitive and meaningful interpretation of geographical phenomena requires their representation at multiple levels of detail. This is due to the scale dependent nature of their pr...
Omair Chaudhry, William A. Mackaness
VLDB
1991
ACM
104views Database» more  VLDB 1991»
15 years 5 months ago
A Metadata Approach to Resolving Semantic Conflicts
In this paper we describe a rule-based approach to semantic specification that can be used to establish semantic agreement between a source and receiver. Query processing techniqu...
Michael Siegel, Stuart E. Madnick
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SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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16 years 2 months ago
Progressive and selective merge: computing top-k with ad-hoc ranking functions
The family of threshold algorithm (i.e., TA) has been widely studied for efficiently computing top-k queries. TA uses a sort-merge framework that assumes data lists are pre-sorted...
Dong Xin, Jiawei Han, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
GIS
2005
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Adaptive nearest neighbor queries in travel time networks
Nearest neighbor (NN) searches represent an important class of queries in geographic information systems (GIS). Most nearest neighbor algorithms rely on static distance informatio...
Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Haojun Wang, Chi-N...
ICPPW
2003
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Security Aspects of Wireless Heterogeneous Databases - Protocol, Performance, and Energy Analysis
Users have been demanding information “anytime, anywhere”. The notion of accessing diverse and autonomous information repositories with different APIs is not accepted. This ha...
Harshal Haridas, Ali R. Hurson, Yu Jiao