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VLDB
2005
ACM
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15 years 8 months ago
Light-weight Domain-based Form Assistant: Querying Web Databases On the Fly
The Web has been rapidly “deepened” by myriad searchable databases online, where data are hidden behind query forms. Helping users query alternative “deep Web” sources in ...
Zhen Zhang, Bin He, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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16 years 3 months ago
Querying continuous functions in a database system
Many scientific, financial, data mining and sensor network applications need to work with continuous, rather than discrete data e.g., temperature as a function of location, or sto...
Arvind Thiagarajan, Samuel Madden
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VLDB
1998
ACM
108views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
15 years 7 months ago
MindReader: Querying Databases Through Multiple Examples
Users often can not easily express their queries. For example, in a multimedia image by content setting, the user might want photographs with sunsets; in current systems, like QBI...
Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Ravishankar Subramanya, Christ...
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
224views Database» more  SIGMOD 2012»
13 years 5 months ago
Tiresias: the database oracle for how-to queries
How-To queries answer fundamental data analysis questions of the form: “How should the input change in order to achieve the desired output”. As a Reverse Data Management probl...
Alexandra Meliou, Dan Suciu
GIS
2005
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Close pair queries in moving object databases
Databases of moving objects are important for air traffic control, ground traffic, and battlefield configurations. We introduce the (historical and spatial) range close-pair query...
Panfeng Zhou, Donghui Zhang, Betty Salzberg, Gene ...