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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Aggregate queries over ontologies
Answering queries over ontologies is an important issue for the Semantic Web. Aggregate queries were widely studied for relational databases but almost no results are known for ag...
Diego Calvanese, Evgeny Kharlamov, Werner Nutt, Ca...
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
154views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Unbiased estimation of size and other aggregates over hidden web databases
Many websites provide restrictive form-like interfaces which allow users to execute search queries on the underlying hidden databases. In this paper, we consider the problem of es...
Arjun Dasgupta, Xin Jin, Bradley Jewell, Nan Zhang...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
118views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Robust Runtime Optimization of Data Transfer in Queries over Web Services
Self-managing solutions have recently attracted a lot of interest from the database community. The need for self-* properties is more evident in distributed applications comprising...
Anastasios Gounaris, Christos Yfoulis, Rizos Sakel...
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
121views Database» more  SIGMOD 1998»
13 years 12 months ago
New Sampling-Based Summary Statistics for Improving Approximate Query Answers
In large data recording and warehousing environments, it is often advantageous to provide fast, approximate answers to queries, whenever possible. Before DBMSs providing highly-ac...
Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias
VLDB
2000
ACM
155views Database» more  VLDB 2000»
13 years 11 months ago
ICICLES: Self-Tuning Samples for Approximate Query Answering
Approximate query answering systems provide very fast alternatives to OLAP systems when applications are tolerant to small errors in query answers. Current sampling-based approach...
Venkatesh Ganti, Mong-Li Lee, Raghu Ramakrishnan