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SSD
2009
Springer
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16 years 1 months ago
Query Integrity Assurance of Location-Based Services Accessing Outsourced Spatial Databases
Outsourcing data to third party data providers is becoming a common practice for data owners to avoid the cost of managing and maintaining databases. Meanwhile, due to the populari...
Wei-Shinn Ku, Ling Hu, Cyrus Shahabi, Haixun Wang
WWW
2011
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Addressing people's information needs directly in a web search result page
Web search engines have historically focused on connecting people with information resources. For example, if a person wanted to know when their flight to Hyderabad was leaving, a...
Lydia B. Chilton, Jaime Teevan
VLDB
2005
ACM
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16 years 7 months ago
Model-based approximate querying in sensor networks
Abstract Declarative queries are proving to be an attractive paradigm for interacting with networks of wireless sensors. The metaphor that "the sensornet is a database" i...
Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Samuel Madden, Jo...
BALT
2006
15 years 10 months ago
Introducing Softness into Inductive Queries on String Databases
In many application domains (e.g., WWW mining, molecular biology), large string datasets are available and yet under-exploited. The inductive database framework assumes that both s...
Ieva Mitasiunaite, Jean-François Boulicaut
SIGIR
2004
ACM
16 years 6 days ago
Multiple sources of evidence for XML retrieval
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags. The tags add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid...
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Jaap Kamps, Maart...