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VLDB
2000
ACM
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14 years 11 hour ago
Offering a Precision-Performance Tradeoff for Aggregation Queries over Replicated Data
Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...
Chris Olston, Jennifer Widom
PODS
2003
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Numerical document queries
A query against a database behind a site like Napster may search, e.g., for all users who have downloaded more jazz titles than pop music titles. In order to express such queries,...
Helmut Seidl, Thomas Schwentick, Anca Muscholl
EUC
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Probabilistic Approach to Consistency Checking for Pervasive Context
Context-awareness is a key issue in pervasive computing. Context-aware applications are prone to the context consistency problem, where applications are confronted with conflictin...
Yu Huang 0002, Xiang Ma, XianPing Tao, Jiannong Ca...
CN
1999
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13 years 8 months ago
Web Caching with Consistent Hashing
A key performance measure for the World Wide Web is the speed with which content is served to users. As traffic on the Web increases, users are faced with increasing delays and fa...
David R. Karger, Alex Sherman, Andy Berkheimer, Bi...
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
SLOQUE: slot-based query expansion for complex questions
Searching answers to complex questions is a challenging IR task. In this paper, we examine the use of query templates with semantic slots to formulate slot-based queries. These qu...
Maggy Anastasia Suryanto, Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, ...