PVLDB
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
We consider the problem of efficiently finding the top-k answers for join queries over web-accessible databases. Classical algorithms for finding top-k answers use branch-and-b...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2007
IEEE
Ranking of query/search answers, although introduced by early information retrieval systems, has become mandatory for internet searches. When the answers of a query or search are ...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
15 years 24 days ago
2007
IEEE
Modern enterprise applications are forced to deal with unreliable, inconsistent and imprecise information. Probabilistic databases can model such data naturally, but SQL query eva...