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ICDE
2004
IEEE
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14 years 8 months ago
A Probabilistic Approach to Metasearching with Adaptive Probing
An ever increasing amount of valuable information is stored in Web databases, "hidden" behind search interfaces. To save the user's effort in manually exploring eac...
Zhenyu Liu, Chang Luo, Junghoo Cho, Wesley W. Chu
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
112views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 7 months ago
A random walk approach to sampling hidden databases
A large part of the data on the World Wide Web is hidden behind form-like interfaces. These interfaces interact with a hidden backend database to provide answers to user queries. ...
Arjun Dasgupta, Gautam Das, Heikki Mannila
ER
2008
Springer
111views Database» more  ER 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
The Situation Lens: Looking into Personal Service Composition
Abstract. In this paper we discuss about composing services from standard suites of applications for personal data management in mobile devices. We propose a data model and an inte...
Augusto Celentano, Stefano Faralli, Fabio Pittarel...
ICDE
2009
IEEE
114views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
A Spreadsheet Algebra for a Direct Data Manipulation Query Interface
— A spreadsheet-like “direct manipulation” interface is more intuitive for many non-technical database users compared to traditional alternatives, such as visual query builde...
Bin Liu, H. V. Jagadish
ISMB
1998
13 years 8 months ago
Advanced Query Mechanisms for Biological Databases
Existing query interfaces for biological databases are either based on fixed forms or textual query languages. Users of a fixed form-based query interface are limited to performin...
I-Min A. Chen, Anthony Kosky, Victor M. Markowitz,...