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CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 11 days ago
Answering XML queries using materialized views revisited
Answering queries using views is a well-established technique in databases. In this context, two outstanding problems can be formulated. The first one consists in deciding whethe...
Xiaoying Wu, Dimitri Theodoratos, Wendy Hui Wang
VLDB
2001
ACM
121views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
14 years 5 days ago
Answering XML Queries on Heterogeneous Data Sources
ct Information Integration is among the most important fields in information management. The problem of integrating data from diverse, possibly heterogeneous data sources is ubiqu...
Ioana Manolescu, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann
EDBT
2009
ACM
115views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Top-k dominating queries in uncertain databases
Due to the existence of uncertain data in a wide spectrum of real applications, uncertain query processing has become increasingly important, which dramatically differs from handl...
Xiang Lian, Lei Chen 0002
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
125views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Top-k queries on uncertain data: on score distribution and typical answers
Uncertain data arises in a number of domains, including data integration and sensor networks. Top-k queries that rank results according to some user-defined score are an important...
Tingjian Ge, Stanley B. Zdonik, Samuel Madden
VLDB
1994
ACM
149views Database» more  VLDB 1994»
13 years 11 months ago
Qualified Answers That Reflect User Needs and Preferences
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
Terry Gaasterland, Jorge Lobo