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SIGMOD
2005
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Query-Sensitive Embeddings
A common problem in many types of databases is retrieving the most similar matches to a query object. Finding those matches in a large database can be too slow to be practical, es...
Vassilis Athitsos, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George...
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
A Multi-paradigm Querying Approach for a Generic Multimedia Database Management System
To truly meet the requirements of multimedia database (MMDB) management, an integrated framework for modeling, managing and retrieving various kinds of media data in a uniform way...
Ji-Rong Wen, Qing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, HongJiang Zhang
EUROPAR
2004
Springer
16 years 1 days ago
OLAP Query Processing in a Database Cluster
OLAP queries are typically heavy-weight and ad-hoc thus requiring high storage capacity and processing power. In this paper, we address this problem using a database cluster which...
Alexandre A. B. Lima, Marta Mattoso, Patrick Valdu...
VLDB
2004
ACM
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15 years 12 months ago
Top-k Query Evaluation with Probabilistic Guarantees
Top-k queries based on ranking elements of multidimensional datasets are a fundamental building block for many kinds of information discovery. The best known general-purpose algor...
Martin Theobald, Gerhard Weikum, Ralf Schenkel
SSDBM
1999
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
Query Processing in the TAMBIS Bioinformatics Source Integration System
Conducting bioinformatic analyses involves biologists in expressing requests over a range of highly heterogeneous information sources and software tools. Such activities are labor...
Norman W. Paton, Robert Stevens, Patricia G. Baker...