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DAGSTUHL
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Query Answering in Inconsistent Databases
In this chapter, we summarize the research on querying inconsistent databases we have been conducting over the last five years. The formal framework we have used is based on two c...
Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Jan Chomicki
VLDB
2005
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
U-DBMS: A Database System for Managing Constantly-Evolving Data
In many systems, sensors are used to acquire information from external environments such as temperature, pressure and locations. Due to continuous changes in these values, and lim...
Reynold Cheng, Sarvjeet Singh, Sunil Prabhakar
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Structure-aware indexing for keyword search in databases
Most of existing methods of keyword search over relational databases find the Steiner trees composed of relevant tuples as the answers. They identify the Steiner trees by discove...
Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng, Jianyong Wang
KRDB
2003
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13 years 9 months ago
Optimizing Query Answering in Description Logics using Disjunctive Deductive Databases
Motivated by the possibilities of applying deductive database technology for efficient query answering in description logics, we present a translation operator µ that transforms...
Boris Motik, Raphael Volz
TPDS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A New Storage Scheme for Approximate Location Queries in Object-Tracking Sensor Networks
Energy efficiency is one of the most critical issues in the design of wireless sensor networks. Observing that many sensor applications for object tracking can tolerate a certain d...
Jianliang Xu, Xueyan Tang, Wang-Chien Lee