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PVLDB
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Scalable multi-query optimization for exploratory queries over federated scientific databases
The diversity and large volumes of data processed in the Natural Sciences today has led to a proliferation of highlyspecialized and autonomous scientific databases with inherent a...
Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Frank Neven, Dieter Va...
PODS
2000
ACM
146views Database» more  PODS 2000»
14 years 12 days ago
Analysis and Application of Adaptive Sampling
An estimation algorithm for a query is a probabilistic algorithm that computes an approximation for the size (number of tuples) of the query. One class of estimation algorithms us...
James F. Lynch
FQAS
2006
Springer
136views Database» more  FQAS 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Robust Query Processing for Personalized Information Access on the Semantic Web
Abstract. Research in Cooperative Query answering is triggered by the observation that users are often not able to correctly formulate queries to databases that return the intended...
Peter Dolog, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Holger Wache
ADBIS
2004
Springer
224views Database» more  ADBIS 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Using Ontologies for Database Query Reformulation
Abstract. Query reformulation techniques based on semantic knowledge have been used in two ways in database management systems, namely for query optimization and for data integrati...
Chokri Ben Necib, Johann Christoph Freytag
VLDB
2004
ACM
106views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Structures, Semantics and Statistics
At a fundamental level, the key challenge in data integration is to reconcile the semantics of disparate data sets, each expressed with a different database structure. I argue th...
Alon Y. Halevy