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PODS
2003
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Materializing views with minimal size to answer queries
In this paper we study the following problem. Given a database and a set of queries, we want to find, in advance, a set of views that can compute the answers to the queries, such ...
Rada Chirkova, Chen Li
JCSS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Structure identification of Boolean relations and plain bases for co-clones
We give a quadratic algorithm for the following structure identification problem: given a Boolean relation R and a finite set S of Boolean relations, can the relation R be express...
Nadia Creignou, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Bruno Zanutti...
EDBT
2006
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
HASE: A Hybrid Approach to Selectivity Estimation for Conjunctive Predicates
Current methods for selectivity estimation fall into two broad categories, synopsis-based and sampling-based. Synopsis-based methods, such as histograms, incur minimal overhead at ...
Xiaohui Yu, Nick Koudas, Calisto Zuzarte
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Handling verbose queries for spoken document retrieval
1 Query-by-example information retrieval provides users a flexible but efficient way to accurately describe their information needs. The query exemplars are usually long and in th...
Shih-Hsiang Lin, Ea-Ee Jan, Berlin Chen
VLDB
1997
ACM
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13 years 12 months ago
Efficient User-Adaptable Similarity Search in Large Multimedia Databases
Efficient user-adaptable similarity search more and more increases in its importance for multimedia and spatial database systems. As a general similarity model for multi-dimension...
Thomas Seidl, Hans-Peter Kriegel