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EDBT
2012
ACM
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11 years 10 months ago
An optimization framework for map-reduce queries
We present an effective optimization framework for general SQLlike map-reduce queries, which is based on a novel query algebra and uses a small number of higher-order physical ope...
Leonidas Fegaras, Chengkai Li, Upa Gupta
SIGMOD
2002
ACM
148views Database» more  SIGMOD 2002»
14 years 7 months ago
Accelerating XPath location steps
This work is a proposal for a database index structure that has been specifically designed to support the evaluation of XPath queries. As such, the index is capable to support all...
Torsten Grust
CIKM
2001
Springer
14 years 1 days ago
Exploiting A Controlled Vocabulary to Improve Collection Selection and Retrieval Effectiveness
Vocabulary incompatibilities arise when the terms used to index a document collection are largely unknown, or at least not well-known to the users who eventually search the collec...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Fredric C. Gey...
AHSWN
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
On the Robustness of Simple Indoor MANET Simulation Models
— We show that simple radio propagation and node mobility models widely used in MANET evaluation are not robust in indoor environments. Robust simulation models let researchers e...
H. Andrés Lagar-Cavilla, Gerard Baron, Thom...
COMPGEOM
1994
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Computing Envelopes in Four Dimensions with Applications
Let F be a collection of n d-variate, possibly partially defined, functions, all algebraic of some constant maximum degree. We present a randomized algorithm that computes the vert...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Boris Aronov, Micha Sharir