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PVLDB
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Sharing-Aware Horizontal Partitioning for Exploiting Correlations During Query Processing
Optimization of join queries based on average selectivities is suboptimal in highly correlated databases. In such databases, relations are naturally divided into partitions, each ...
Kostas Tzoumas, Amol Deshpande, Christian S. Jense...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
173views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
15 years 5 days ago
Accelerating Profile Queries in Elevation Maps
Elevation maps are a widely used spatial data representation in geographical information systems (GIS). Paths on elevation maps can be characterized by profiles, which describe re...
Feng Pan, Wei Wang 0010, Leonard McMillan
TIME
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Version Management and Historical Queries in Digital Libraries
Historical information can be effectively preserved using XML and searched through powerful historical queries written in XQuery. Indeed, by storing the successive versions of a d...
Fusheng Wang, Carlo Zaniolo, Xin Zhou, Hyun J. Moo...
ICDT
2007
ACM
126views Database» more  ICDT 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
Combining Incompleteness and Ranking in Tree Queries
Abstract. In many cases, users may want to consider incomplete answers to their queries. Often, however, there is an overwhelming number of such answers, even if subsumed answers a...
Benny Kimelfeld, Yehoshua Sagiv
SSDBM
1999
IEEE
135views Database» more  SSDBM 1999»
14 years 3 months ago
Query Processing in the TAMBIS Bioinformatics Source Integration System
Conducting bioinformatic analyses involves biologists in expressing requests over a range of highly heterogeneous information sources and software tools. Such activities are labor...
Norman W. Paton, Robert Stevens, Patricia G. Baker...