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ACMSE
2005
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Metadata management and relational databases
A simple extension to the relational model that permits metadata (more generally metaknowledge) to be stored and manipulated as first class data is proposed. The accompanying que...
Shun Yan Cheung, James J. Lu, Catharine M. Wyss
VLDB
2005
ACM
126views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
15 years 9 months ago
Consistently Estimating the Selectivity of Conjuncts of Predicates
Cost-based query optimizers need to estimate the selectivity of conjunctive predicates when comparing alternative query execution plans. To this end, advanced optimizers use multi...
Volker Markl, Nimrod Megiddo, Marcel Kutsch, Tam M...
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AUSDM
2007
Springer
107views Data Mining» more  AUSDM 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
Preference Networks: Probabilistic Models for Recommendation Systems
Recommender systems are important to help users select relevant and personalised information over massive amounts of data available. We propose an unified framework called Prefer...
Tran The Truyen, Dinh Q. Phung, Svetha Venkatesh
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JIIS
2006
76views more  JIIS 2006»
15 years 4 months ago
Holes in joins
A join of two relations in real databases is usually much smaller than their cartesian product. This means that most of the combinations of tuples in the crossproduct of the respe...
Jarek Gryz, Dongming Liang
KRDB
2003
142views Database» more  KRDB 2003»
15 years 5 months ago
Optimizing Query Answering in Description Logics using Disjunctive Deductive Databases
Motivated by the possibilities of applying deductive database technology for efficient query answering in description logics, we present a translation operator µ that transforms...
Boris Motik, Raphael Volz