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VLDB
1999
ACM
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14 years 27 days ago
Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities
XML is fast emerging as the dominant standard for representing data in the World Wide Web. Sophisticated query engines that allow users to effectively tap the data stored in XML d...
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Kristin Tufte, Chun Zhan...
ER
2004
Springer
103views Database» more  ER 2004»
14 years 2 months ago
Querying Heterogeneous Spatial Databases: Combining an Ontology with Similarity Functions
This paper uses a knowledge-based approach to querying heterogeneous spatial databases based on an ontology and conceptual and attribute similarities. The ontology, which may be in...
Mariella Gutiérrez, M. Andrea Rodríg...
ISTA
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Capturing Semantics from Search Phrases: Incremental User Personification and Ontology-Driven Query Transformation
: Reported is the methodology of the semantic transformation of an initial user’s search query in the form of key words or key phrases to the resulting query composed of the rele...
Vadim Ermolayev, Natalya Keberle, Sergey Plaksin, ...
ICDE
2001
IEEE
111views Database» more  ICDE 2001»
14 years 10 months ago
Overcoming Limitations of Sampling for Aggregation Queries
We study the problem of approximately answering aggregation queries using sampling. We observe that uniform sampling performs poorly when the distribution of the aggregated attrib...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Gautam Das, Mayur Datar, Rajeev...
BNCOD
2001
101views Database» more  BNCOD 2001»
13 years 10 months ago
Limiting Result Cardinalities for Multidatabase Queries Using Histograms
Abstract. Integrating, cleaning and analyzing data from heterogeneous sources is often complicated by the large amounts of data and its physical distribution which can result in po...
Kai-Uwe Sattler, Oliver Dunemann, Ingolf Geist, Gu...