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GIS
1995
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A Window Retrieval Algorithm for Spatial Databases Using Quadtrees
An algorithm is presented to answer window queries in a quadtree-based spatial database environment by retrieving the covering blocks in the underlying spatial database. It works ...
Walid G. Aref, Hanan Samet
IADIS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Querying Databases and XML Documents: Comparative Study and a New Proposal
XML has become the most useful standard of data interchange in the web and e-business world and there is a large amount of information stored in this format. Nonetheless, a large ...
Ana Fermoso García, María José...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
167views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
HDSampler: revealing data behind web form interfaces
A large number of online databases are hidden behind the web. Users to these systems can form queries through web forms to retrieve a small sample of the database. Sampling such h...
Anirban Maiti, Arjun Dasgupta, Nan Zhang, Gautam D...
EDBT
2008
ACM
137views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Synthesizing structured text from logical database subsets
In the classical database world, information access has been based on a paradigm that involves structured, schema-aware, queries and tabular answers. In the current environment, h...
Alkis Simitsis, Georgia Koutrika, Yannis Alexandra...
ICDE
1999
IEEE
113views Database» more  ICDE 1999»
14 years 9 months ago
Capability-Sensitive Query Processing on Internet Sources
On the Internet, the limited query-processing capabilities of sources make answering even the simplest queries challenging. In this paper, we present a scheme called GenCompact fo...
Hector Garcia-Molina, Wilburt Labio, Ramana Yernen...