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SIGMOD
2002
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Minimal probing: supporting expensive predicates for top-k queries
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Seung-won Hwang
ICDE
2006
IEEE
285views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
14 years 8 months ago
An Approach to Adaptive Memory Management in Data Stream Systems
Adaptivity is a challenging open issue in data stream management. In this paper, we tackle the problem of memory adaptivity inside a system executing temporal sliding window queri...
Bernhard Seeger, Jürgen Krämer, Michael ...
ECIR
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Refining Keyword Queries for XML Retrieval by Combining Content and Structure
Abstract. The structural heterogeneity and complexity of XML repositories makes query formulation challenging for users who have little knowledge of XML. To assist its users, an XM...
Desislava Petkova, W. Bruce Croft, Yanlei Diao
ICDE
2005
IEEE
123views Database» more  ICDE 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Load and Network Aware Query Routing for Information Integration
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
ADC
2005
Springer
106views Database» more  ADC 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
OS Support for a Commodity Database on PC clusters - Distributed Devices vs. Distributed File Systems
In this paper we attempt to parallelise a commodity database for OLAP on a cluster of commodity PCs by using a distributed high-performance storage subsystem. By parallelising the...
Felix Rauch, Thomas Stricker