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GIS
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Quality-driven geospatial data integration
Accurate and efficient integration of geospatial data is an important problem with applications in areas such as emergency response and urban planning. Some of the key challenges ...
Craig A. Knoblock, José Luis Ambite, Snehal...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
210views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 6 months ago
Private queries in location based services: anonymizers are not necessary
Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...
ICDT
2005
ACM
128views Database» more  ICDT 2005»
16 years 5 days ago
The Pipelined Set Cover Problem
Abstract. A classical problem in query optimization is to find the optimal ordering of a set of possibly correlated selections. We provide an ion of this problem as a generalizati...
Kamesh Munagala, Shivnath Babu, Rajeev Motwani, Je...
SAC
2004
ACM
16 years 2 days ago
Integrating similarity-based queries in image DBMSs
Until recently, issues in image retrieval have been handled in DBMSs and in computer vision as separate research works. Nowadays, the trend is towards integrating the two approach...
Solomon Atnafu, Richard Chbeir, David Coquil, Lion...
CIKM
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Preference query evaluation over expensive attributes
Most database systems allow query processing over attributes that are derived at query runtime (e.g., user-defined functions and remote data calls to web services), making them e...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed E...