Sciweavers

929 search results - page 41 / 186
» Answering imprecise database queries: a novel approach
Sort
View
ICDE
2001
IEEE
206views Database» more  ICDE 2001»
14 years 9 months ago
Cache-Aware Query Routing in a Cluster of Databases
We investigate query routing techniques in a cluster of databases for a query-dominant environment. The objective is to decrease query response time. Each component of the cluster...
Uwe Röhm, Klemens Böhm, Hans-Jörg S...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
112views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 7 months ago
A random walk approach to sampling hidden databases
A large part of the data on the World Wide Web is hidden behind form-like interfaces. These interfaces interact with a hidden backend database to provide answers to user queries. ...
Arjun Dasgupta, Gautam Das, Heikki Mannila
ACSC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A semantic approach to boost passage retrieval effectiveness for question answering
In the current state of the rapid growth of information resources and the huge number of requests submitted by users to existing information retrieval systems; recently, Question ...
Bahadorreza Ofoghi, John Yearwood, Ranadhir Ghosh
VLDB
2005
ACM
129views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Sketching Streams Through the Net: Distributed Approximate Query Tracking
Emerging large-scale monitoring applications require continuous tracking of complex dataanalysis queries over collections of physicallydistributed streams. Effective solutions hav...
Graham Cormode, Minos N. Garofalakis
WCE
2007
13 years 8 months ago
An Intelligent Conversational Agent Approach to Extracting Queries from Natural Language
—This paper is concerned with the application of a conversational agent and expert system to provide a natural language interface to a database. Typically, natural language datab...
Karen Pudner, Keeley A. Crockett, Zuhair Bandar