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2008
ACM
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On the brink: searching for drops in sensor data
Sensor networks have been widely used to collect data about the environment. When analyzing data from these systems, people tend to ask exploratory questions--they want to find su...
Gong Chen, Junghoo Cho, Mark H. Hansen
EDBT
2008
ACM
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BioScout: a life-science query monitoring system
Scientific data are available through an increasing number of heterogeneous, independently evolving, sources. Although the sources themselves are independently evolving, the data ...
Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Frank Neven, Dieter Va...
EDBT
2008
ACM
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Providing freshness guarantees for outsourced databases
Database outsourcing becomes increasingly attractive as advances in network technologies eliminate the perceived performance difference between in-house databases and outsourced d...
Min Xie, Haixun Wang, Jian Yin, Xiaofeng Meng
EDBT
2008
ACM
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OrthoCluster: a new tool for mining synteny blocks and applications in comparative genomics
By comparing genomes among both closely and distally related species, comparative genomics analysis characterizes structures and functions of different genomes in both conserved a...
Xinghuo Zeng, Matthew J. Nesbitt, Jian Pei, Ke Wan...
EDBT
2008
ACM
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Why go logarithmic if we can go linear?: Towards effective distinct counting of search traffic
Estimating the number of distinct elements in a large multiset has several applications, and hence has attracted active research in the past two decades. Several sampling and sket...
Ahmed Metwally, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
EDBT
2008
ACM
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Ring-constrained join: deriving fair middleman locations from pointsets via a geometric constraint
We introduce a novel spatial join operator, the ring-constrained join (RCJ). Given two sets P and Q of spatial points, the result of RCJ consists of pairs p, q (where p P, q Q) ...
Man Lung Yiu, Panagiotis Karras, Nikos Mamoulis
EDBT
2008
ACM
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Schema mapping verification: the spicy way
Schema mapping algorithms rely on value correspondences ? i.e., correspondences among semantically related attributes ? to produce complex transformations among data sources. Thes...
Angela Bonifati, Giansalvatore Mecca, Alessandro P...
EDBT
2008
ACM
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The TELAR mobile mashup platform for Nokia internet tablets
With the Web 2.0 trend and its participation of end-users more and more data and information services are online accessible, such as web sites, Wikis, or web services. The integra...
Andreas Brodt, Daniela Nicklas
EDBT
2008
ACM
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Finding time-dependent shortest paths over large graphs
The spatial and temporal databases have been studied widely and intensively over years. In this paper, we study how to answer queries of finding the best departure time that minim...
Bolin Ding, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Lu Qin
EDBT
2008
ACM
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Summary management in P2P systems
Sharing huge, massively distributed databases in P2P systems is inherently difficult. As the amount of stored data increases, data localization techniques become no longer suffici...
Rabab Hayek, Guillaume Raschia, Patrick Valduriez,...