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SAC
2003
ACM
16 years 2 days ago
Improving Image Retrieval Effectiveness in Query-by-Example Environment
Query-by-example is the most popular query model for today’s image retrieval systems. A typical query image contains not only relevant objects (e.g., Eiffel Tower), but also ir...
Khanh Vu, Kien A. Hua, Ning Jiang
KR
1992
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Learning Useful Horn Approximations
While the task of answering queries from an arbitrary propositional theory is intractable in general, it can typicallybe performed e ciently if the theory is Horn. This suggests t...
Russell Greiner, Dale Schuurmans
VLDB
1995
ACM
194views Database» more  VLDB 1995»
15 years 10 months ago
Eager Aggregation and Lazy Aggregation
Efficient processing of aggregation queries is essential for decision support applications. This paper describes a class of query transformations, called eager aggregation and lat...
Weipeng P. Yan, Per-Åke Larson
DASFAA
2008
IEEE
151views Database» more  DASFAA 2008»
15 years 8 months ago
Efficient Top-k Search Across Heterogeneous XML Data Sources
An important issue arising from XML query relaxation is how to efficiently search the top-k best answers from a large number of XML data sources, while minimizing the searching cos...
Jianxin Li, Chengfei Liu, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Rui Zhou
VLDB
1999
ACM
140views Database» more  VLDB 1999»
15 years 11 months ago
Combining Histograms and Parametric Curve Fitting for Feedback-Driven Query Result-size Estimation
This paper aims to improve the accuracy of query result-size estimations in query optimizers by leveraging the dynamic feedback obtained from observations on the executed query wo...
Arnd Christian König, Gerhard Weikum