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VLDB
1998
ACM
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From Data Independence to Knowledge Independence: An on-going Story
It is today widely acceptedthat "Business Rules Independence" is required for information systemsto better and more rapidly adjust to changesin thebusinessenvironment,Th...
Laurent Vieille
VLDB
1998
ACM
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Heterogeneous Database Query Optimization in DB2 Universal DataJoiner
Shivakumar Venkataraman, Tian Zhang
VLDB
1998
ACM
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The National Medical Knowledge Bank
This paper describes a massively parallel object relational (O/R) database used in an advanced development program to create a comprehensive medical information system called the ...
Warren Sterling
VLDB
1998
ACM
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Massive Stochastic Testing of SQL
Deterministic testing of SQL database systems is human intensive and cannot adequately cover the SQL input domain. A system (RAGS), was built to stochastically generate valid SQL ...
Donald R. Slutz
VLDB
1998
ACM
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Scalable Techniques for Mining Causal Structures
Mining for association rules in market basket data has proved a fruitful areaof research. Measures such as conditional probability (confidence) and correlation have been used to i...
Craig Silverstein, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, Je...
VLDB
1998
ACM
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Materialized View Selection for Multidimensional Datasets
To fulfill the requirement of fast interactive multidimensional data analysis, database systems precompute aggregate views on some subsets of dimensions and their corresponding hi...
Amit Shukla, Prasad Deshpande, Jeffrey F. Naughton
VLDB
1998
ACM
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Filtering with Approximate Predicates
Approximate predicates can be used to reduce the number of comparisons made by expensive, complex predicates. For example, to check if a point is within a region (expensive predic...
Narayanan Shivakumar, Hector Garcia-Molina, Chandr...
VLDB
1998
ACM
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WaveCluster: A Multi-Resolution Clustering Approach for Very Large Spatial Databases
Many applications require the management of spatial data. Clustering large spatial databases is an important problem which tries to find the densely populated regions in the featu...
Gholamhosein Sheikholeslami, Surojit Chatterjee, A...