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EDBT
2010
ACM
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PARINDA: an interactive physical designer for PostgreSQL
One of the most challenging tasks for the database administrator is to physically design the database to attain optimal performance for a given workload. Physical design is hard b...
Cristina Maier, Debabrata Dash, Ioannis Alagiannis...
ADBIS
2006
Springer
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Data Ring: Let Us Turn the Net into a Database!
Because of information ubiquity, one observes an important trend towards transferring information management tasks from database systems to networks. We introduce the notion of Da...
Serge Abiteboul, Neoklis Polyzotis
EDBT
2010
ACM
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Probabilistic threshold k nearest neighbor queries over moving objects in symbolic indoor space
The availability of indoor positioning renders it possible to deploy location-based services in indoor spaces. Many such services will benefit from the efficient support for k n...
Bin Yang 0002, Hua Lu, Christian S. Jensen
EDBT
2010
ACM
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BP-Ex: a uniform query engine for business process execution traces
Many enterprises nowadays use business processes, based on the BPEL standard, to achieve their goals. Analyzing the execution of such processes is critical for enforcing business ...
Eran Balan, Tova Milo, Tal Sterenzy
EDBT
2010
ACM
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Keyword search for data-centric XML collections with long text fields
Users who are unfamiliar with database query languages can search XML data sets using keyword queries. Current approaches for supporting such queries are either for textcentric XM...
Arash Termehchy, Marianne Winslett
EDBT
2010
ACM
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PerK: personalized keyword search in relational databases through preferences
Keyword-based search in relational databases allows users to discover relevant information without knowing the database schema or using complicated queries. However, such searches...
Kostas Stefanidis, Marina Drosou, Evaggelia Pitour...
AMAST
2008
Springer
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Implementing a Categorical Information System
The authors have proposed using category-theoretic sketches to enhance database design and integration methodologies. The algebraic context is called the Sketch Data Model (SkDM) a...
Michael Johnson, Robert D. Rosebrugh
ADC
2008
Springer
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An Integrated Approach to Video Retrieval
The usefulness of a video database depends on whether the video of interest can be easily located. In this paper, we propose a video retrieval algorithm based on the integration o...
Liang-Hua Chen, Kuo-Hao Chin, Hong-Yuan Mark Liao
ADC
2008
Springer
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UserMap : an Adaptive Enhancing of User-Driven XML-to-Relational Mapping Strategies
As the XML has become a standard for data representation, it is inevitable to propose and implement techniques for efficient managing of XML data. A natural alternative is to expl...
Irena Mlynkova, Jaroslav Pokorný
ADC
2008
Springer
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Content-based Image Retrieval Using Image Regions as Query Examples
A common approach to content-based image retrieval is to use example images as queries; images in the collection that have low-level features similar to the query examples are ret...
D. N. F. Awang Iskandar, James A. Thom, Seyed M. M...