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ICEBE
2005
IEEE
96views Business» more  ICEBE 2005»
15 years 9 months ago
Adding Physical Optimization to Cost Models in Information Mediators
Optimization of execution plans in information mediators is a critical task, specially when sources are remote and semistructured, as in the case of transactional web sites. Lack ...
Justo Hidalgo, Alberto Pan, José Losada, Ma...
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SIGMOD
1997
ACM
91views Database» more  SIGMOD 1997»
15 years 7 months ago
On Saying "Enough Already!" in SQL
In this paper, we study a simple SQL extension that enables query writers to explicitly limit the cardinality of a query result. We examine its impact on the query optimization an...
Michael J. Carey, Donald Kossmann
CORR
2008
Springer
74views Education» more  CORR 2008»
15 years 3 months ago
Biased Range Trees
A data structure, called a biased range tree, is presented that preprocesses a set S of n points in R2 and a query distribution D for 2-sided orthogonal range counting queries. The...
Vida Dujmovic, John Howat, Pat Morin
120
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AIIA
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Linguistically Informed IR in Question Answering
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
Jörg Tiedemann
117
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SIGMOD
2004
ACM
105views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
16 years 3 months ago
The Priority R-Tree: A Practically Efficient and Worst-Case Optimal R-Tree
We present the Priority R-tree, or PR-tree, which is the first R-tree variant that always answers a window query using O((N/B)1-1/d + T/B) I/Os, where N is the number of ddimensio...
Lars Arge, Mark de Berg, Herman J. Haverkort, Ke Y...