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SIGMOD
1999
ACM
181views Database» more  SIGMOD 1999»
14 years 1 months ago
Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets
Computing multidimensional aggregates in high dimensions is a performance bottleneck for many OLAP applications. Obtaining the exact answer to an aggregation query can be prohibit...
Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang
SENSYS
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Medians and beyond: new aggregation techniques for sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks offer the potential to span and monitor large geographical areas inexpensively. Sensors, however, have significant power constraint (battery life), makin...
Nisheeth Shrivastava, Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Divya...
KDD
1998
ACM
145views Data Mining» more  KDD 1998»
14 years 1 months ago
Aggregation of Imprecise and Uncertain Information for Knowledge Discovery in Databases
We consider the problem of aggregation for uncertain and imprecise data. For such data, we define aggregation operators and use them to provide information on properties and patte...
Sally I. McClean, Bryan W. Scotney, Mary Shapcott
PODS
2011
ACM
238views Database» more  PODS 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
Beyond simple aggregates: indexing for summary queries
Database queries can be broadly classified into two categories: reporting queries and aggregation queries. The former retrieves a collection of records from the database that mat...
Zhewei Wei, Ke Yi
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
LocalSavvy: aggregating local points of view about news issues
The web has become an important medium for news delivery and consumption. Fresh content about a variety of topics, events, and places is constantly being created and published on ...
Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum