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VLDB
2005
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Semantic Adaptation of Schema Mappings when Schemas Evolve
Schemas evolve over time to accommodate the changes in the information they represent. Such evolution causes invalidation of various artifacts depending on the schemas, such as sc...
Cong Yu, Lucian Popa
ER
2009
Springer
152views Database» more  ER 2009»
13 years 7 months ago
Towards a Theory of Conceptual Modelling
: Conceptual modelling is a widely applied practice and has led to a large body of knowledge on constructs that might be used for modelling and on methods that might be useful for ...
Bernhard Thalheim
CIKM
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The power-method: a comprehensive estimation technique for multi-dimensional queries
Existing estimation approaches for multi-dimensional databases often rely on the assumption that data distribution in a small region is uniform, which seldom holds in practice. Mo...
Yufei Tao, Christos Faloutsos, Dimitris Papadias
ISBI
2004
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Search Space Partitioning Using Convex Hull and Concavity Features for Fast Medical Image Retrieval
A new approach is presented for partitioning an image database by classifying and indexing the convex hull shapes and the number of region concavities. The result is a significant...
Phillip Mlsna, Nikolay Sirakov
PODS
2006
ACM
114views Database» more  PODS 2006»
14 years 10 months ago
On redundancy vs dependency preservation in normalization: an information-theoretic study of 3NF
A recently introduced information-theoretic approach to analyzing redundancies in database design was used to justify normal forms like BCNF that completely eliminate redundancies...
Solmaz Kolahi, Leonid Libkin