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VLDB
2004
ACM
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15 years 7 months ago
Data Sharing Through Query Translation in Autonomous Sources
We consider the problem of data sharing between autonomous data sources in an environment where constraints cannot be placed on the shared contents of sources. Our solutions rely ...
Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Marcelo Arenas
SENSYS
2004
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Medians and beyond: new aggregation techniques for sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks offer the potential to span and monitor large geographical areas inexpensively. Sensors, however, have significant power constraint (battery life), makin...
Nisheeth Shrivastava, Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Divya...
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WWW
2002
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
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SSDBM
1999
IEEE
140views Database» more  SSDBM 1999»
15 years 6 months ago
An Infrastructure for Scalable Parallel Multidimensional Analysis
Multidimensional Analysis in On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP), and Scientific and statistical databases (SSDB) use operations requiring summary information on multi-dimensiona...
Sanjay Goil, Alok N. Choudhary
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
136views Database» more  SIGMOD 2001»
16 years 2 months ago
Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models
Estimating the result size of complex queries that involve selection on multiple attributes and the join of several relations is a difficult but fundamental task in database query...
Lise Getoor, Benjamin Taskar, Daphne Koller