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SIGMOD
2000
ACM
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14 years 1 days ago
WSQ/DSQ: A Practical Approach for Combined Querying of Databases and the Web
We present WSQ/DSQ (pronounced “wisk-disk”), a new approach for combining the query facilities of traditional databases with existing search engines on the Web. WSQ, for Web-S...
Roy Goldman, Jennifer Widom
AMW
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Data Expiration and Aggregate Queries
We investigate the space requirements for summaries needed for maintaining exact answers to aggregate queries over histories of relational databases. We show that, in general, a su...
David Toman
ICDE
2008
IEEE
336views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Dominant Graph: An Efficient Indexing Structure to Answer Top-K Queries
Given a record set D and a query score function F, a top-k query returns k records from D, whose values of function F on their attributes are the highest. In this paper, we investi...
Lei Zou, Lei Chen 0002
CIDR
2003
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13 years 9 months ago
Crossing the Structure Chasm
It has frequently been observed that most of the world’s data lies outside database systems. The reason is that database systems focus on structured data, leaving the unstructur...
Alon Y. Halevy, Oren Etzioni, AnHai Doan, Zachary ...
VLDB
2005
ACM
113views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
14 years 8 months ago
Mediators over taxonomy-based information sources
Abstract. We propose a mediator model for providing integrated and unified access to multiple taxonomy-based sources. Each source comprises a taxonomy and a database that indexes o...
Yannis Tzitzikas, Nicolas Spyratos, Panos Constant...