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VLDB
2001
ACM
151views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
16 years 6 months ago
Approximate query mapping: Accounting for translation closeness
Abstract In this paper we present a mechanism for approximately translating Boolean query constraints across heterogeneous information sources. Achieving the best translation is ch...
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina
ICDE
2009
IEEE
155views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
SPROUT: Lazy vs. Eager Query Plans for Tuple-Independent Probabilistic Databases
— A paramount challenge in probabilistic databases is the scalable computation of confidences of tuples in query results. This paper introduces an efficient secondary-storage o...
Dan Olteanu, Jiewen Huang, Christoph Koch
IDEAS
2005
IEEE
93views Database» more  IDEAS 2005»
15 years 12 months ago
Semantic Query Transformation Using Ontologies
Traditional approaches to query processing aim at rewriting a given query into another more efficient one that uses less time and/or resources during the execution. There by, the...
Chokri Ben Necib, Johann Christoph Freytag
KRDB
1998
93views Database» more  KRDB 1998»
15 years 7 months ago
Intelligent Caching for Information Mediators: A KR Based Approach
We present a semantic caching approach for optimizing the performance of information mediators. A critical problem with information mediators, particularly those gathering and int...
Naveen Ashish, Craig A. Knoblock, Cyrus Shahabi
SMC
2007
IEEE
150views Control Systems» more  SMC 2007»
16 years 16 days ago
An intelligent knowledge sharing system for web communities
— This paper presents the prototype of an expert peering system for information exchange in the knowledge society. Our system realizes an intelligent, real-time search engine for...
Christian Bauckhage, Tansu Alpcan, Sachin Agarwal,...