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1998
15 years 7 months ago
Advanced Query Mechanisms for Biological Databases
Existing query interfaces for biological databases are either based on fixed forms or textual query languages. Users of a fixed form-based query interface are limited to performin...
I-Min A. Chen, Anthony Kosky, Victor M. Markowitz,...
DASFAA
2003
IEEE
115views Database» more  DASFAA 2003»
15 years 11 months ago
The BofS Solution to Limitations of Approximate Summaries
Data warehouses are of crucial importance to decision-making in competitive organizations. The fact that they store enormous quantities of data is a challenge in what concerns per...
Pedro Furtado, João Pedro Costa
ICDE
2006
IEEE
155views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
16 years 7 months ago
Answering Imprecise Queries over Autonomous Web Databases
Current approaches for answering queries with imprecise constraints require user-specific distance metrics and importance measures for attributes of interest - metrics that are ha...
Ullas Nambiar, Subbarao Kambhampati
ICDE
2008
IEEE
161views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
16 years 7 months ago
Convoy Queries in Spatio-Temporal Databases
We introduce a convoy query that retrieves all convoys from historical trajectories, each of which consists of a set of objects that travelled closely during a certain time period....
Hoyoung Jeung, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Estimating the number of answers with guarantees for structured queries in p2p databases
Structured P2P overlays supporting standard database functionalities are a popular choice for building large-scale distributed data management systems. In such systems, estimating...
Marcel Karnstedt, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Michael Ha&szli...