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ICDE
2008
IEEE
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14 years 10 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
EDBT
2006
ACM
145views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
14 years 8 months ago
Indexing Spatially Sensitive Distance Measures Using Multi-resolution Lower Bounds
Abstract. Comparison of images requires a distance metric that is sensitive to the spatial location of objects and features. Such sensitive distance measures can, however, be compu...
Vebjorn Ljosa, Arnab Bhattacharya, Ambuj K. Singh
ICDE
2009
IEEE
205views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
14 years 10 months ago
Top-k Exploration of Query Candidates for Efficient Keyword Search on Graph-Shaped (RDF) Data
Keyword queries enjoy widespread usage as they represent an intuitive way of specifying information needs. Recently, answering keyword queries on graph-structured data has emerged ...
Thanh Tran, Haofen Wang, Sebastian Rudolph, Philip...
BMCBI
2007
177views more  BMCBI 2007»
13 years 8 months ago
The BioPrompt-box: an ontology-based clustering tool for searching in biological databases
Background: High-throughput molecular biology provides new data at an incredible rate, so that the increase in the size of biological databanks is enormous and very rapid. This sc...
Claudio Corsi, Paolo Ferragina, Roberto Marangoni
PODS
1995
ACM
139views Database» more  PODS 1995»
14 years 1 days ago
Normalizing Incomplete Databases
Databases are often incomplete because of the presence of disjunctive information, due to con icts, partial knowledge and other reasons. Queries against such databases often ask q...
Leonid Libkin