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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
184views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
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...
MM
2006
ACM
197views Multimedia» more  MM 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Virtual observers in a mobile surveillance system
Conventional wide-area video surveillance systems use a network of fixed cameras positioned close to locations of interest. We describe an alternative and flexible approach to w...
Stewart Greenhill, Svetha Venkatesh
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
96views Database» more  SIGMOD 1998»
13 years 12 months ago
Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation
Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we ...
Yossi Matias, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
Evaluating different methods of estimating retrieval quality for resource selection
In a federated digital library system, it is too expensive to query every accessible library. Resource selection is the task to decide to which libraries a query should be routed....
Henrik Nottelmann, Norbert Fuhr
PVLDB
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Tighter estimation using bottom k sketches
Summaries of massive data sets support approximate query processing over the original data. A basic aggregate over a set of records is the weight of subpopulations specified as a ...
Edith Cohen, Haim Kaplan