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2008
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A tribute, not a memorial: understanding ambiguous loss
In this paper, I discuss ambiguous loss, why it is so traumatizing, what to do to lower the distress when someone disappears without a trace, and why a tribute is more appropriate...
Pauline Boss
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Why did Jim Gray win the Turing Award?
This short paper is intended to describe for the layman why Jim Gray won so many awards, culminating in his being selected to receive the 1998 ACM Turing Award, arguably the "...
Michael Stonebraker
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 10 months ago
On Query Algebras for Probabilistic Databases
This article proposes a core query algebra for probabilistic databases. In essence, this core is part of the query languages of most probabilistic database systems proposed so far...
Christoph Koch
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Jim Gray at Berkeley
Jim Gray spent a decade as a student and researcher at Berkeley. In action, he is remembered for his breath, his depth, and his generosity. Categories and Subject Descriptors K.1 ...
Michael A. Harrison
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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The Spicy system: towards a notion of mapping quality
We introduce the Spicy system, a novel approach to the problem of automatically selecting the best mappings among two data sources. Known schema mapping algorithms rely on value c...
Angela Bonifati, Giansalvatore Mecca, Alessandro P...