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VLDB
2008
ACM
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Tree-based partition querying: a methodology for computing medoids in large spatial datasets
Besides traditional domains (e.g., resource allocation, data mining applications), algorithms for medoid computation and related problems will play an important role in numerous e...
Kyriakos Mouratidis, Dimitris Papadias, Spiros Pap...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
235views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
Quality and efficiency in high dimensional nearest neighbor search
Nearest neighbor (NN) search in high dimensional space is an important problem in many applications. Ideally, a practical solution (i) should be implementable in a relational data...
Yufei Tao, Ke Yi, Cheng Sheng, Panos Kalnis
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
184views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
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Minimizing the communication cost for continuous skyline maintenance
Existing work in the skyline literature focuses on optimizing the processing cost. This paper aims at minimization of the communication overhead in client-server architectures, wh...
Zhenjie Zhang, Reynold Cheng, Dimitris Papadias, A...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
210views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Private queries in location based services: anonymizers are not necessary
Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
138views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Sampling time-based sliding windows in bounded space
Random sampling is an appealing approach to build synopses of large data streams because random samples can be used for a broad spectrum of analytical tasks. Users are often inter...
Rainer Gemulla, Wolfgang Lehner