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ICDE
2008
IEEE
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16 years 8 months ago
Hierarchical Indexing Approach to Support XPath Queries
We study new hierarchical indexing approach to process XPATH queries. Here, a hierarchical index consists of index entries that are pairs of queries and their (full/partial) answer...
Jeffrey Xu Yu, Kam-Fai Wong, M. Tamer Özsu, N...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
148views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
16 years 6 months ago
Combining keyword search and forms for ad hoc querying of databases
A common criticism of database systems is that they are hard to query for users uncomfortable with a formal query language. To address this problem, form-based interfaces and keyw...
Eric Chu, Akanksha Baid, Xiaoyong Chai, AnHai Doan...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
150views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 6 months ago
Ranking queries on uncertain data: a probabilistic threshold approach
Uncertain data is inherent in a few important applications such as environmental surveillance and mobile object tracking. Top-k queries (also known as ranking queries) are often n...
Ming Hua, Jian Pei, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin
ICC
2007
IEEE
180views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
16 years 27 days ago
Distributed Quad-Tree for Spatial Querying in Wireless Sensor Networks
— In contrast to the traditional wireless sensor network (WSN) applications that perform only data collection and aggregation, new generation of information processing applicatio...
Murat Demirbas, Xuming Lu
IDEAS
2005
IEEE
93views Database» more  IDEAS 2005»
16 years 5 days ago
Semantic Query Transformation Using Ontologies
Traditional approaches to query processing aim at rewriting a given query into another more efficient one that uses less time and/or resources during the execution. There by, the...
Chokri Ben Necib, Johann Christoph Freytag