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CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Semantics and Evaluation of Top-k Queries in Probabilistic Databases
Abstract. We study here fundamental issues involved in top-k query evaluation in probabilistic databases. We consider simple probabilistic databases in which probabilities are asso...
Xi Zhang, Jan Chomicki
ICDE
2007
IEEE
173views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
Top-k Query Processing in Uncertain Databases
Top-k processing in uncertain databases is semantically and computationally different from traditional top-k processing. The interplay between score and uncertainty makes traditio...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Kevin Chen-Chua...
EDBTW
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Enhanced Regular Path Queries on Semistructured Databases
Regular path queries are the basic navigational component of virtually all the mechanisms for querying semistructured data commonly found in information integration applications, W...
Dan C. Stefanescu, Alex Thomo
ADBIS
2004
Springer
224views Database» more  ADBIS 2004»
14 years 27 days ago
Using Ontologies for Database Query Reformulation
Abstract. Query reformulation techniques based on semantic knowledge have been used in two ways in database management systems, namely for query optimization and for data integrati...
Chokri Ben Necib, Johann Christoph Freytag
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
190views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
DataLens: making a good first impression
When a database query has a large number of results, the user can only be shown one page of results at a time. One popular approach is to rank results such that the "best&quo...
Bin Liu, H. V. Jagadish