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SIGMOD
2003
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Cache-and-Query for Wide Area Sensor Databases
Webcams, microphones, pressure gauges and other sensors provide exciting new opportunities for querying and monitoring the physical world. In this paper we focus on querying wide ...
Amol Deshpande, Suman Kumar Nath, Phillip B. Gibbo...
TKDE
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A Cost-Based Approach to Adaptive Resource Management in Data Stream Systems
Data stream management systems need to control their resources adaptively since stream characteristics and query workload may vary over time. In this paper we investigate an approa...
Michael Cammert, Jürgen Krämer, Bernhard...
WEBDB
2000
Springer
131views Database» more  WEBDB 2000»
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Classification of Text Databases Through Query Probing
Many text databases on the web are "hidden" behind search interfaces, and their documents are only accessible through querying. Search engines typically ignore the conte...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano, Mehran Saha...
ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Preferences for Queries in a Mediator Approach
The problem of integrating relevant information obtained from multiple heterogeneous sources is a complex task, with which biologists are now faced. In this paper, we address the p...
Alain Bidault, Sarah Cohen Boulakia, Christine Fro...
ICDE
2009
IEEE
210views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Keyword Search in Spatial Databases: Towards Searching by Document
This work addresses a novel spatial keyword query called the m-closest keywords (mCK) query. Given a database of spatial objects, each tuple is associated with some descriptive inf...
Dongxiang Zhang, Yeow Meng Chee, Anirban Mondal, A...