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2004
ACM
110views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
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On sums of independent random variables with unbounded variance, and estimating the average degree in a graph
We prove the following inequality: for every positive integer n and every collection X1, . . . , Xn of nonnegative independent random variables that each has expectation 1, the pr...
Uriel Feige
VLDB
2005
ACM
121views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
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Join operations in temporal databases
Joins are arguably the most important relational operators. Poor implementations are tantamount to computing the Cartesian product of the input relations. In a temporal database, t...
Dengfeng Gao, Christian S. Jensen, Richard T. Snod...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
134views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
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Keyword query cleaning using hidden Markov models
In this paper, we consider the problem of keyword query cleaning for structured databases from a probabilistic approach. Keyword query cleaning consists of rewriting the user quer...
Ken Q. Pu
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
1527views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
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XPRESS: A Queriable Compression for XML Data
Like HTML, many XML documents are resident on native file systems. Since XML data is irregular and verbose, the disk space and the network bandwidth are wasted. To overcome the ve...
Jun-Ki Min, Myung-Jae Park, Chin-Wan Chung
EDBT
2002
ACM
179views Database» more  EDBT 2002»
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Efficient Complex Query Support for Multiversion XML Documents
Managing multiple versions of XML documents represents a critical requirement for many applications. Also, there has been much recent interest in supporting complex queries on XML ...
Shu-Yao Chien, Vassilis J. Tsotras, Carlo Zaniolo,...