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POPL
2006
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
A hierarchical model of data locality
In POPL 2002, Petrank and Rawitz showed a universal result-finding optimal data placement is not only NP-hard but also impossible to approximate within a constant factor if P = NP...
Chengliang Zhang, Chen Ding, Mitsunori Ogihara, Yu...
VLDB
2006
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
Grid-partition index: a hybrid method for nearest-neighbor queries in wireless location-based services
Abstract Traditional nearest-neighbor (NN) search is based on two basic indexing approaches: object-based indexing and solution-based indexing. The former is constructed based on t...
Baihua Zheng, Jianliang Xu, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
127views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Query evaluation using overlapping views: completeness and efficiency
We study the problem of finding efficient equivalent viewbased rewritings of relational queries, focusing on query optimization using materialized views under the assumption that ...
Gang Gou, Maxim Kormilitsin, Rada Chirkova
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
232views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
To search or to crawl?: towards a query optimizer for text-centric tasks
Text is ubiquitous and, not surprisingly, many important applications rely on textual data for a variety of tasks. As a notable example, information extraction applications derive...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Eugene Agichtein, Pranay ...
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Database replication policies for dynamic content applications
The database tier of dynamic content servers at large Internet sites is typically hosted on centralized and expensive hardware. Recently, research prototypes have proposed using d...
Gokul Soundararajan, Cristiana Amza, Ashvin Goel