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PVLDB
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Efficient search for the top-k probable nearest neighbors in uncertain databases
Uncertainty pervades many domains in our lives. Current real-life applications, e.g., location tracking using GPS devices or cell phones, multimedia feature extraction, and sensor...
George Beskales, Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas
ICDE
2007
IEEE
110views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Pointwise-Dense Region Queries in Spatio-temporal Databases
Applications such as traffic management and resource scheduling for location-based services commonly need to identify regions with high concentrations of moving objects. Such quer...
Jinfeng Ni, Chinya V. Ravishankar
EDBT
2009
ACM
145views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Interactive query refinement
We investigate the problem of refining SQL queries to satisfy cardinality constraints on the query result. This has applications to the many/few answers problems often faced by da...
Chaitanya Mishra, Nick Koudas
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A pruning-based approach for supporting Top-K join queries
An important issue arising from large scale data integration is how to efficiently select the top-K ranking answers from multiple sources while minimizing the transmission cost. T...
Jie Liu, Liang Feng, Yunpeng Xing
ICDE
2007
IEEE
219views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Efficient Keyword Search Across Heterogeneous Relational Databases
Keyword search is a familiar and potentially effective way to find information of interest that is "locked" inside relational databases. Current work has generally assum...
Mayssam Sayyadian, Hieu LeKhac, AnHai Doan, Luis G...