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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Database research in computer games
This tutorial presents an overview of the data management issues faced by computer games today. While many games do not use databases directly, they still have to process large am...
Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Christoph Koch, B...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
160views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
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Supporting ranking and clustering as generalized order-by and group-by
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
127views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
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Efficient reverse k-nearest neighbor search in arbitrary metric spaces
The reverse k-nearest neighbor (RkNN) problem, i.e. finding all objects in a data set the k-nearest neighbors of which include a specified query object, is a generalization of the...
Elke Achtert, Christian Böhm, Peer Kröge...
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
232views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
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To search or to crawl?: towards a query optimizer for text-centric tasks
Text is ubiquitous and, not surprisingly, many important applications rely on textual data for a variety of tasks. As a notable example, information extraction applications derive...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Eugene Agichtein, Pranay ...
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
238views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
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Continuous monitoring of top-k queries over sliding windows
Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in convent...
Kyriakos Mouratidis, Spiridon Bakiras, Dimitris Pa...