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DATESO
2007
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Shape Extraction Framework for Similarity Search in Image Databases
The task of similarity search in image databases has been studied for decades, while there have been many feature extraction techniques proposed. Among the mass of low-level techni...
Jan Klima, Tomás Skopal
DATESO
2007
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Index-Based Approach to Similarity Search in Protein and Nucleotide Databases
When searching databases of nucleotide or protein sequences, finding a local alignment of two sequences is one of the main tasks. Since the sizes of available databases grow const...
David Hoksza, Tomás Skopal
DATESO
2007
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Improvement of Text Compression Parameters Using Cluster Analysis
Abstract. Several actions are usually performed when document is appended to textual database in information retrieval system. The most frequent actions are compression of the docu...
Jiri Dvorský, Jan Martinovic
CASCON
2008
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Autonomic tuning expert: a framework for best-practice oriented autonomic database tuning
Databases are growing rapidly in scale and complexity. High performance, availability, and further service level agreements need to be satisfied under any circumstances to please ...
David Wiese, Gennadi Rabinovitch, Michael Reichert...
BNCOD
2008
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Virtual Forced Splitting, Demotion and the BV-Tree
Alan P. Sexton, Richard Swinbank
BNCOD
2008
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Reconciling Inconsistent Data in Probabilistic XML Data Integration
Abstract. The problem of dealing with inconsistent data while integrating XML data from different sources is an important task, necessary to improve data integration quality. Typic...
Tadeusz Pankowski
BNCOD
2008
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Smooth Interpolating Histograms with Error Guarantees
Abstract. Accurate selectivity estimations are essential for query optimization decisions where they are typically derived from various kinds of histograms which condense value dis...
Thomas Neumann, Sebastian Michel
BNCOD
2008
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A Semantics for a Query Language over Sensors, Streams and Relations
Abstract. We introduce a query language over sensors, streams and relations and formally describe its semantics. Although the language was specifically designed for sensor network ...
Christian Y. A. Brenninkmeijer, Ixent Galpin, Alva...
BNCOD
2008
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An Empirical Study of Utility Measures for k-Anonymisation
Abstract. k-Anonymisation is a technique for masking microdata in order to prevent individual identification. Besides preserving privacy, data anonymised by such a method must also...
Grigorios Loukides, Jianhua Shao
BNCOD
2008
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Finding Data Resources in a Virtual Observatory Using SKOS Vocabularies
Abstract. One problem faced by astronomers using the virtual observatory is finding which of the multitude of data resources is relevant for them. The current tool, VOExplorer, rel...
Alasdair J. G. Gray, Norman Gray, Iadh Ounis