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CDB
2004
Springer
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Constraint Database Solutions to the Genome Map Assembly Problem
Abstract. Long DNA sequences have to be cut using restriction enzymes into small fragments whose lengths and/or nucleotide sequences can be analyzed by currently available technolo...
Viswanathan Ramanathan, Peter Z. Revesz
CDB
2004
Springer
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Constraint Processing Techniques for Improving Join Computation: A Proof of Concept
Constraint Processing and Database techniques overlap significantly. We discuss here the application of a constraint satisfaction technique, called dynamic bundling, to databases....
Anagh Lal, Berthe Y. Choueiry
CDB
2004
Springer
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Moving Objects and Their Equations of Motion
Moving objects are currently represented in databases by means of an explicit representation of their trajectory. However from a physical point of view, or more specifically accor...
Floris Geerts
CDB
2004
Springer
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Semantic Optimization of Preference Queries
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). We present here a nu...
Jan Chomicki
ADC
2004
Springer
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Do Clarity Scores for Queries Correlate with User Performance?
Recently the concept of a clarity score was introduced in order to measure the ambiguity of a query in relation to the collection in which the query issuer is seeking information ...
Andrew Turpin, William R. Hersh
ADC
2004
Springer
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Data Flow and Validation in Workflow Modelling
A complete workflow specification requires careful integration of many different process characteristics. Decisions must be made as to the definitions of individual activities, th...
Shazia W. Sadiq, Maria E. Orlowska, Wasim Sadiq, C...
ADC
2004
Springer
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Clustering Moving Objects for Spatio-temporal Selectivity Estimation
Many spatio-temporal applications involve managing and querying moving objects. In such an environment, predictive spatio-temporal queries become an important query class to be pr...
Qing Zhang, Xuemin Lin
ADC
2004
Springer
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Multiresolution Amalgamation: Dynamic Spatial Data Cube Generation
Aggregating spatial objects is a necessary step in generating spatial data cubes to support roll-up/drill-down operations. Current approaches face performance bottleneck issues wh...
Sham Prasher, Xiaofang Zhou
ADC
2004
Springer
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A Collaborative Approach for Caching Dynamic Data in Portal Applications
Portals are one of the rapidly growing applications on the Web, providing a single interface to access different sources (providers). Providing fast response time is one of the c...
Mehregan Mahdavi, John Shepherd, Boualem Benatalla...
ADC
2004
Springer
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On the Computation of Approximations of Database Queries
Reflective Relational Machines were introduced by S. Abiteboul, C. Papadimitriou and V. Vianu in 1994, as variations of Turing machines which are suitable for the computation of ...
Flavio Antonio Ferrarotti, Jose Maria Turull Torre...