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LPNMR
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An ID-Logic Formalization of the Composition of Autonomous Databases
We introduce a declarative approach for a coherent composition of autonomous databases. For this we use ID-logic, a formalism that extends classical logic with inductive definitio...
Bert Van Nuffelen, Ofer Arieli, Alvaro Corté...
PODS
2000
ACM
179views Database» more  PODS 2000»
14 years 21 hour ago
Selectivity Estimation for Boolean Queries
In a variety of applications ranging from optimizing queries on alphanumeric attributes to providing approximate counts of documents containing several query terms, there is an in...
Zhiyuan Chen, Flip Korn, Nick Koudas, S. Muthukris...
ICDE
2010
IEEE
268views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
Techniques for Efficiently Searching in Spatial, Temporal, Spatio-temporal, and Multimedia Databases
This tutorial provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of general techniques to efficiently support similarity queries in spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal, and multimedi...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Renz, Peer Kröge...
EDBT
2009
ACM
113views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Query ranking in probabilistic XML data
Twig queries have been extensively studied as a major fragment of XPATH queries to query XML data. In this paper, we study PXMLRANK query, (Q, k), which is to rank top-k probabili...
Lijun Chang, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Lu Qin
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
150views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Ranking queries on uncertain data: a probabilistic threshold approach
Uncertain data is inherent in a few important applications such as environmental surveillance and mobile object tracking. Top-k queries (also known as ranking queries) are often n...
Ming Hua, Jian Pei, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin