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SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Supporting ranking and clustering as generalized order-by and group-by
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
PODS
2010
ACM
228views Database» more  PODS 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Capturing missing tuples and missing values
Databases in real life are often neither entirely closed-world nor entirely open-world. Indeed, databases in an enterprise are typically partially closed, in which a part of the d...
Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts
ASPLOS
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
FAB: building distributed enterprise disk arrays from commodity components
This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a Federated Array of Bricks (FAB), a distributed disk array that provides the reliability of traditional enterpr...
Yasushi Saito, Svend Frølund, Alistair C. V...
SPIRE
1999
Springer
14 years 4 days ago
Cross-Domain Approximate String Matching
Approximate string matching is an important paradigm in domains ranging from speech recognition to information retrieval and molecular biology. In this paper, we introduce a new f...
Daniel P. Lopresti, Gordon T. Wilfong
DEXA
2003
Springer
117views Database» more  DEXA 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
A Toolkit and Methodology to Support the Collaborative Development and Reuse of Engineering Models
Abstract. Engineering design is a knowledge intensive activity. Design is characterized as comprising a number of phases from requirements to detailed specification. Transitions be...
Zdenek Zdráhal, Paul Mulholland, Michael Va...