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2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Logic of Motion
There are numerous applications such as air traffic management, cellular phone location tracking, and vehicle protection systems where there is a critical need to reason about mo...
Fusun Yaman, Dana S. Nau, V. S. Subrahmanian
ICDE
2003
IEEE
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14 years 11 months ago
Schema Mediation in Peer Data Management Systems
Intuitively, data management and data integration tools should be well-suited for exchanging information in a semantically meaningful way. Unfortunately, they suffer from two sign...
Alon Y. Halevy, Zachary G. Ives, Dan Suciu, Igor T...
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
A Characterization of the Sensitivity of Query Optimization to Storage Access Cost Parameters
Most relational query optimizers make use of information about the costs of accessing tuples and data structures on various storage devices. This information can at times be off b...
Frederick Reiss, Tapas Kanungo
DBISP2P
2004
Springer
111views Database» more  DBISP2P 2004»
14 years 3 months ago
Processing and Optimization of Complex Queries in Schema-Based P2P-Networks
Peer-to-Peer infrastructures are emerging as one of the important data management infrastructures in the World Wide Web. So far, however, most work has focused on simple P2P networ...
Hadhami Dhraief, Alfons Kemper, Wolfgang Nejdl, Ch...
SIGMOD
2002
ACM
112views Database» more  SIGMOD 2002»
14 years 10 months ago
Minimal probing: supporting expensive predicates for top-k queries
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Seung-won Hwang