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PODS
2008
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Evaluating rank joins with optimal cost
In the rank join problem, we are given a set of relations and a scoring function, and the goal is to return the join results with the top K scores. It is often the case in practic...
Karl Schnaitter, Neoklis Polyzotis
ICDT
2005
ACM
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16 years 3 days ago
PTIME Queries Revisited
The existence of a language expressing precisely the PTIME queries on arbitrary structures remains the central open problem in the theory of database query languages. As it turns o...
Alan Nash, Jeffrey B. Remmel, Victor Vianu
IUI
2003
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
A reliable natural language interface to household appliances
As household appliances grow in complexity and sophistication, they become harder and harder to use, particularly because of their tiny display screens and limited keyboards. This...
Alexander Yates, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld
EDBT
2009
ACM
92views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
Efficient skyline computation in metric space
Given a set of n query points in a general metric space, a metricspace skyline (MSS) query asks what are the closest points to all these query points in the database. Here, consid...
David Fuhry, Ruoming Jin, Donghui Zhang
SEMWEB
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Data Semantics Revisited
The problem of data semantics is establishing and maintaining the correspondence between a data source and its intended subject matter. We review the long history of the problem in...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos