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VLDB
1997
ACM
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Mining Insurance Data at Swiss Life
Huge masses of digital data about products, customers and competitors have become available for companies in the services sector. In order to exploit its inherent (and often hidde...
Jörg-Uwe Kietz, Ulrich Reimer, Martin Staudt
VLDB
1997
ACM
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Incremental Organization for Data Recording and Warehousing
Data warehouses and recording systems typically have a large continuous stream of incoming data, that must be stored in a manner suitable for future access. Access to stored recor...
H. V. Jagadish, P. P. S. Narayan, S. Seshadri, S. ...
VLDB
1997
ACM
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Multiple-View Self-Maintenance in Data Warehousing Environments
A data warehouse materializes views derived from data that may not reside at the warehouse. Maintaining these views e ciently in response to base updates is di cult, since it may ...
Nam Huyn
VLDB
1997
ACM
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1-Safe Algorithms for Symmetric Site Configurations
Rune Humborstad, Maitrayi Sabaratnam, Svein-Olaf H...
VLDB
1997
ACM
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Spatial Joins Using R-trees: Breadth-First Traversal with Global Optimizations
R-tree based spatial join is useful because of both its superior performance and the wide spread implementation of R-trees. We present a new R-tree join method called BFRJ (Breadt...
Yun-Wu Huang, Ning Jing, Elke A. Rundensteiner
VLDB
1997
ACM
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Optimizing Queries Across Diverse Data Sources
Businesses today need to interrelate data stored in diverse systems with differing capabilities, ideally via a single high-level query interface. We present the design of a query ...
Laura M. Haas, Donald Kossmann, Edward L. Wimmers,...
VLDB
1997
ACM
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A Foundation for Multi-dimensional Databases
We present a multi-dimensional database model, which we believe can serve as a conceptual model for On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP)-based applications. Apart from providing t...
Marc Gyssens, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan
VLDB
1997
ACM
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Merging Ranks from Heterogeneous Internet Sources
Many sources on the Internet and elsewhere rank the objects in query results according to how well these objects match the original query. For example, a real-estate agent might r...
Luis Gravano, Hector Garcia-Molina
VLDB
1997
ACM
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Parallel Query Scheduling and Optimization with Time- and Space-Shared Resources
Scheduling query execution plans is a particularly complex problem in hierarchical parallel systems, where each site consists of a collection of local time-shared (e.g., CPU(s) or...
Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E. Ioannidis
VLDB
1997
ACM
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DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases
In semistructured databases there is no schema fixed in advance. To provide the benefits of a schema in such environments, we introduce DataGuides: concise and accurate structural...
Roy Goldman, Jennifer Widom