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1999
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Selectivity Estimation in Spatial Databases
Selectivity estimation of queries is an important and wellstudied problem in relational database systems. In this paper, we examine selectivity estimation in the context of Geogra...
Swarup Acharya, Viswanath Poosala, Sridhar Ramaswa...
SIGMOD
1999
ACM
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WALRUS: A Similarity Retrieval Algorithm for Image Databases
Traditional approaches for content-based image querying typically compute a single signature for each image based on color histograms, texture, wavelet transforms etc., and return...
Apostol Natsev, Rajeev Rastogi, Kyuseok Shim
SIGMOD
1999
ACM
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Mind Your Vocabulary: Query Mapping Across Heterogeneous Information Sources
In this paper we present a mechanism for translating constraint queries, i.e., Boolean expressions of constraints, across heterogeneous information sources. Integrating such syste...
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina
SIGMOD
1999
ACM
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Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data
In this paper, we introduce self-tuning histograms. Although similar in structure to traditional histograms, these histograms infer data distributions not by examining the data or...
Ashraf Aboulnaga, Surajit Chaudhuri
SIGMOD
1999
ACM
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Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering
In large data warehousing environments, it is often advantageous to provide fast, approximate answers to complex aggregate queries based on statistical summaries of the full data....
Swarup Acharya, Phillip B. Gibbons, Viswanath Poos...