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EDBT
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
In emerging applications such as location-based services, sensor monitoring and biological management systems, the values of the database items are naturally imprecise. For these ...
VLDB
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2011
ACM
Uncertain data is inherent in a few important applications such as environmental surveillance and mobile object tracking. Top-k queries (also known as ranking queries) are often n...
ICDE
2010
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2010
IEEE
The skyline query returns the most interesting tuples according to a set of explicitly defined preferences among attribute values. This work relaxes this requirement, and allows us...
VLDB
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2005
ACM
In many systems, sensors are used to acquire information from external environments such as temperature, pressure and locations. Due to continuous changes in these values, and lim...
OTM
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2005
Springer
The relational algebra and calculus do not take the semantics of terms into account when answering queries. As a consequence, not all tuples that should be returned in response to ...