PVLDB
2008
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2008
In this paper we describe a new approach to extract element labels from Web form interfaces. Having these labels is a requirement for several techniques that attempt to retrieve a...
PVLDB
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Several real-world applications need to effectively manage and reason about large amounts of data that are inherently uncertain. For instance, pervasive computing applications mus...
PVLDB
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Declarative languages have recently been proposed for many new applications outside of traditional data management. Since these are relatively early research efforts, it is import...
PVLDB
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Many commercial RDBMSs employ cost-based query optimization exploiting dynamic programming (DP) to efficiently generate the optimal query execution plan. However, optimization tim...
PVLDB
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Due to the imperative need to reduce the management costs of large data centers, operators multiplex several concurrent database applications on a server farm connected to shared ...
PVLDB
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Keyword search is a user-friendly mechanism for retrieving XML data in web and scientific applications. An intuitively compelling but vaguely defined goal is to identify matches t...
PVLDB
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
PVLDB
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
This paper studies, for the first time, the management of type information for an important class of semi-structured data: nested DAGs (Directed Acyclic Graphs) that describe exec...
PVLDB
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Helpdesk databases are used to store past interactions between customers and companies to improve customer service quality. One common scenario of using helpdesk database is to fi...
PVLDB
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
Supporting entity extraction from large document collections is important for enabling a variety of important data analysis tasks. In this paper, we introduce the "ad-hoc&quo...