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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Skippy: a new snapshot indexing method for time travel in the storage manager
The storage manager of a general-purpose database system can retain consistent disk page level snapshots and run application programs "back-in-time" against long-lived p...
Ross Shaull, Liuba Shrira, Hao Xu
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Ranking queries on uncertain data: a probabilistic threshold approach
Uncertain data is inherent in a few important applications such as environmental surveillance and mobile object tracking. Top-k queries (also known as ranking queries) are often n...
Ming Hua, Jian Pei, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Freebase: a collaboratively created graph database for structuring human knowledge
Freebase is a practical, scalable tuple database used to structure general human knowledge. The data in Freebase is collaboratively created, structured, and maintained. Freebase c...
Kurt D. Bollacker, Colin Evans, Praveen Paritosh, ...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Efficient storage scheme and query processing for supply chain management using RFID
As the size of an RFID tag becomes smaller and the price of the tag gets lower, RFID technology has been applied to a wide range of areas. Recently, RFID has been adopted in the b...
Chun-Hee Lee, Chin-Wan Chung
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Stretch 'n' shrink: resizing queries to user preferences
We present Stretch `n' Shrink, a query design framework that explicitly takes into account user preferences about the desired answer size, and subsequently modifies the query...
Chaitanya Mishra, Nick Koudas
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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ARCube: supporting ranking aggregate queries in partially materialized data cubes
Supporting ranking queries in database systems has been a popular research topic recently. However, there is a lack of study on supporting ranking queries in data warehouses where...
Tianyi Wu, Dong Xin, Jiawei Han
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Serializable isolation for snapshot databases
Michael J. Cahill, Uwe Röhm, Alan David Feket...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Discovering topical structures of databases
The increasing complexity of enterprise databases and the prevalent lack of documentation incur significant cost in both understanding and integrating the databases. Existing solu...
Wensheng Wu, Berthold Reinwald, Yannis Sismanis, R...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Tinycasper: a privacy-preserving aggregate location monitoring system in wireless sensor networks
This demo presents a privacy-preserving aggregate location monitoring system, namely, TinyCasper, in which we can monitor moving objects in wireless sensor networks while preservi...
Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Tian He
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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Sampling time-based sliding windows in bounded space
Random sampling is an appealing approach to build synopses of large data streams because random samples can be used for a broad spectrum of analytical tasks. Users are often inter...
Rainer Gemulla, Wolfgang Lehner