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SIGMOD
2007
ACM
181views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 4 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
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MIR
2006
ACM
162views Multimedia» more  MIR 2006»
15 years 9 months ago
Dynamic similarity search in multi-metric spaces
An important research issue in multimedia databases is the retrieval of similar objects. For most applications in multimedia databases, an exact search is not meaningful. Thus, mu...
Benjamin Bustos, Tomás Skopal
VLDB
1989
ACM
88views Database» more  VLDB 1989»
15 years 7 months ago
Estimating the Size of Generalized Transitive Closures
We present a framework for the estimation of the size of binary recursively defined relations. We show how the framework can be used to provide estimating algo rithms for the size...
Richard J. Lipton, Jeffrey F. Naughton
CORR
2010
Springer
138views Education» more  CORR 2010»
15 years 3 months ago
A Logical Temporal Relational Data Model
Time is one of the most difficult aspects to handle in real world applications such as database systems. Relational database management systems proposed by Codd offer very little ...
Nadeem Mahmood, Aqil Burney, Kamran Ahsan
PKDD
2005
Springer
123views Data Mining» more  PKDD 2005»
15 years 9 months ago
A Multi-metric Index for Euclidean and Periodic Matching
In many classification and data-mining applications the user does not know a priori which distance measure is the most appropriate for the task at hand without examining the produ...
Michail Vlachos, Zografoula Vagena, Vittorio Caste...