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VLDB
2007
ACM
225views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
16 years 7 months ago
An Approach to Optimize Data Processing in Business Processes
In order to optimize their revenues and profits, an increasing number of businesses organize their business activities in terms of business processes. Typically, they automate imp...
Marko Vrhovnik, Holger Schwarz, Oliver Suhre, Bern...
VLDB
2007
ACM
147views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
16 years 7 months ago
A General Framework for Modeling and Processing Optimization Queries
An optimization query asks for one or more data objects that maximize or minimize some function over the data set. We propose a general class of queries, model-based optimization ...
Michael Gibas, Ning Zheng, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
181views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 6 months ago
Progressive and selective merge: computing top-k with ad-hoc ranking functions
The family of threshold algorithm (i.e., TA) has been widely studied for efficiently computing top-k queries. TA uses a sort-merge framework that assumes data lists are pre-sorted...
Dong Xin, Jiawei Han, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
212views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
16 years 6 months ago
A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification
Data integrated from multiple sources may contain inconsistencies that violate integrity constraints. The constraint repair problem attempts to find "low cost" changes t...
Philip Bohannon, Michael Flaster, Wenfei Fan, Raje...
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
131views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
16 years 6 months ago
Order-Preserving Encryption for Numeric Data
Encryption is a well established technology for protecting sensitive data. However, once encrypted, data can no longer be easily queried aside from exact matches. We present an or...
Rakesh Agrawal, Jerry Kiernan, Ramakrishnan Srikan...