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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Keyword search on structured and semi-structured data
Empowering users to access databases using simple keywords can relieve the users from the steep learning curve of mastering a structured query language and understanding complex a...
Yi Chen, Wei Wang 0011, Ziyang Liu, Xuemin Lin
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Top-k queries on uncertain data: on score distribution and typical answers
Uncertain data arises in a number of domains, including data integration and sensor networks. Top-k queries that rank results according to some user-defined score are an important...
Tingjian Ge, Stanley B. Zdonik, Samuel Madden
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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FlexRecs: expressing and combining flexible recommendations
Recommendation systems have become very popular but most recommendation methods are `hard-wired' into the system making experimentation with and implementation of new recomme...
Georgia Koutrika, Benjamin Bercovitz, Hector Garci...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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QoX-driven ETL design: reducing the cost of ETL consulting engagements
As business intelligence becomes increasingly essential for organizations and as it evolves from strategic to operational, the complexity of Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes...
Alkis Simitsis, Kevin Wilkinson, Malú Caste...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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A comparison of approaches to large-scale data analysis
There is currently considerable enthusiasm around the MapReduce (MR) paradigm for large-scale data analysis [17]. Although the basic control flow of this framework has existed in ...
Andrew Pavlo, Erik Paulson, Alexander Rasin, Danie...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Scalable skyline computation using object-based space partitioning
The skyline operator returns from a set of multi-dimensional objects a subset of superior objects that are not dominated by others. This operation is considered very important in ...
Shiming Zhang, Nikos Mamoulis, David W. Cheung
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Advances in flash memory SSD technology for enterprise database applications
The past few decades have witnessed a chronic and widening imbalance among processor bandwidth, disk capacity, and access speed of disk. According to Amdhal's law, the perfor...
Sang-Won Lee, Bongki Moon, Chanik Park
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Estimating the confidence of conditional functional dependencies
Conditional functional dependencies (CFDs) have recently been proposed as extensions of classical functional dependencies that apply to a certain subset of the relation, as specif...
Graham Cormode, Lukasz Golab, Flip Korn, Andrew Mc...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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MEDIALIFE: from images to a life chronicle
Amarnath Gupta, Setareh Rafatirad, Mingyan Gao, Ra...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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Simplifying XML schema: effortless handling of nondeterministic regular expressions
Whether beloved or despised, XML Schema is momentarily the only industrially accepted schema language for XML and is unlikely to become obsolete any time soon. Nevertheless, many ...
Geert Jan Bex, Wouter Gelade, Wim Martens, Frank N...