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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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PRIMA: archiving and querying historical data with evolving schemas
Schema evolution poses serious challenges in historical data management. Traditionally historical data have been archived either by (i) migrating them into the current schema vers...
Hyun J. Moon, Carlo Curino, MyungWon Ham, Carlo Za...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Vispedia: on-demand data integration for interactive visualization and exploration
Wikipedia is an example of the large, collaborative, semi-structured data sets emerging on the Web. Typically, before these data sets can be used, they must transformed into struc...
Bryan Chan, Justin Talbot, Leslie Wu, Nathan Sakun...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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DataLens: making a good first impression
When a database query has a large number of results, the user can only be shown one page of results at a time. One popular approach is to rank results such that the "best&quo...
Bin Liu, H. V. Jagadish
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Monitoring path nearest neighbor in road networks
This paper addresses the problem of monitoring the k nearest neighbors to a dynamically changing path in road networks. Given a destination where a user is going to, this new quer...
Zaiben Chen, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, Jeffrey...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Attacks on privacy and deFinetti's theorem
In this paper we present a method for reasoning about privacy using the concepts of exchangeability and deFinetti's theorem. We illustrate the usefulness of this technique by...
Daniel Kifer
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Kernel-based skyline cardinality estimation
The skyline of a d-dimensional dataset consists of all points not dominated by others. The incorporation of the skyline operator into practical database systems necessitates an ef...
Zhenjie Zhang, Yin Yang, Ruichu Cai, Dimitris Papa...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Scalable join processing on very large RDF graphs
With the proliferation of the RDF data format, engines for RDF query processing are faced with very large graphs that contain hundreds of millions of RDF triples. This paper addre...
Thomas Neumann, Gerhard Weikum
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Database research in computer games
This tutorial presents an overview of the data management issues faced by computer games today. While many games do not use databases directly, they still have to process large am...
Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Christoph Koch, B...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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FlashLogging: exploiting flash devices for synchronous logging performance
Synchronous transactional logging is the central mechanism for ensuring data persistency and recoverability in database systems. Unfortunately, magnetic disks are ill-suited for t...
Shimin Chen
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Efficient type-ahead search on relational data: a TASTIER approach
Existing keyword-search systems in relational databases require users to submit a complete query to compute answers. Often users feel "left in the dark" when they have l...
Guoliang Li, Shengyue Ji, Chen Li, Jianhua Feng