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ICDT
2009
ACM
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Towards a theory of search queries
The need to manage diverse information sources has triggered the rise of very loosely structured data models, known as "dataspace models." Such information management sy...
George H. L. Fletcher, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk V...
ICDT
2009
ACM
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Query languages for data exchange: beyond unions of conjunctive queries
The class of unions of conjunctive queries (UCQ) has been shown to be particularly well-behaved for data exchange; its certain answers can be computed in polynomial time (in terms...
Juan Reutter, Marcelo Arenas, Pablo Barceló
ICDT
2009
ACM
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How big must complete XML query languages be?
Marx and de Rijke have shown that the navigational core of the w3c XML query language XPath is not first-order complete ? that is it cannot express every query definable in firsto...
Clemens Ley, Michael Benedikt
ICDT
2009
ACM
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The average-case complexity of counting distinct elements
We continue the study of approximating the number of distinct elements in a data stream of length n to within a (1? ) factor. It is known that if the stream may consist of arbitra...
David P. Woodruff
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
Mining frequent geographic patterns with knowledge constraints
The large amount of patterns generated by frequent pattern mining algorithms has been extensively addressed in the last few years. In geographic pattern mining, besides the large ...
Luis Otávio Alvares, Paulo Martins Engel, S...
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
Analyzing theme, space, and time: an ontology-based approach
The W3C's Semantic Web Activity is illustrating the use of semantics for information integration, search, and analysis. However, the majority of the work in this community ha...
Matthew Perry, Farshad Hakimpour, Amit P. Sheth
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
Recognition of island structures for map generalization
In this paper we describe work on the automatic recognition of island structures. In an initial phase several test persons were asked to mark groups of islands that they perceived...
Stefan Steiniger, Dirk Burghardt, Robert Weibel
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
Entity resolution in geospatial data integration
Vivek Sehgal, Lise Getoor, Peter Viechnicki
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
Distance join queries on spatial networks
The result of a distance join operation on two sets of objects R, S on a spatial network G is a set P of object pairs <p, q>, p R, q S such that the distance of an object ...
Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Houman Alborzi, Hanan Same...
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
Preserving local topological relationships
Topological relationships between objects in space are of great importance in many disciplines. Recently, topological relationships have been defined for complex spatial objects. ...
Mark McKenney, Alejandro Pauly, Reasey Praing, Mar...