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SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Statistical analysis of sketch estimators
Sketching techniques can provide approximate answers to aggregate queries either for data-streaming or distributed computation. Small space summaries that have linearity propertie...
Florin Rusu, Alin Dobra
VLDB
1990
ACM
116views Database» more  VLDB 1990»
14 years 14 days ago
A Probabilistic Framework for Vague Queries and Imprecise Information in Databases
A probabilistic learning model for vague queries and missing or imprecise information in databases is described. Instead of retrieving only a set of answers, our approach yields a...
Norbert Fuhr
DL
1999
Springer
139views Digital Library» more  DL 1999»
14 years 22 days ago
Constructing Web Views from Automated Navigation Sessions
Existing web search engines provide users with the ability to query an off-line database of indices in order to decide on an entry point for further manual navigation. Results are...
Nadav Zin, Mark Levene
PVLDB
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Querying Probabilistic Information Extraction
Recently, there has been increasing interest in extending relational query processing to include data obtained from unstructured sources. A common approach is to use stand-alone I...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Garo...
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
158views Database» more  SIGMOD 2001»
14 years 8 months ago
Generating Efficient Plans for Queries Using Views
We study the problem of generating e cient, equivalent rewritings using views to compute the answer to a query. We take the closed-world assumption, in which views are materialize...
Foto N. Afrati, Chen Li, Jeffrey D. Ullman