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SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 12 months ago
Faster top-k document retrieval using block-max indexes
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...
Shuai Ding, Torsten Suel
KR
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Optimization Techniques for Retrieving Resources Described in OWL/RDF Documents: First Results
Practical description logic systems play an ever-growing role for knowledge representation and reasoning research even in distributed environments. In particular, the often-discus...
Volker Haarslev, Ralf Möller
ICDE
2010
IEEE
227views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Approximate Confidence Computation in Probabilistic Databases
Abstract-- This paper introduces a deterministic approximation algorithm with error guarantees for computing the probability of propositional formulas over discrete random variable...
Dan Olteanu, Jiewen Huang, Christoph Koch
ICDE
2009
IEEE
143views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Supporting Generic Cost Models for Wide-Area Stream Processing
— Existing stream processing systems are optimized for a specific metric, which may limit their applicability to diverse applications and environments. This paper presents XFlow...
Olga Papaemmanouil, Ugur Çetintemel, John J...
EDBT
2009
ACM
118views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Optimized union of non-disjoint distributed data sets
In a variety of applications, ranging from data integration to distributed query evaluation, there is a need to obtain sets of data items from several sources (peers) and compute ...
Itay Dar, Tova Milo, Elad Verbin