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SIGIR
2000
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
The impact of database selection on distributed searching
The proliferation of online information resources increases the importance of effective and efficient distributed searching. Distributed searching is cast in three parts – datab...
Allison L. Powell, James C. French, James P. Calla...
SSDBM
2008
IEEE
94views Database» more  SSDBM 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
A FUSE-Based Tool for Accessing Meteorological Data in Remote Servers
This paper describes a tool for providing transparent access to online meteorological databases by way of local file system. It is realized by FUSE, an implementation of usermode ...
Keiichirou Ui, Toshiyuki Amagasa, Hiroyuki Kitagaw...
ICDE
2006
IEEE
174views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
16 years 8 months ago
Extending RDBMSs To Support Sparse Datasets Using An Interpreted Attribute Storage Format
"Sparse" data, in which relations have many attributes that are null for most tuples, presents a challenge for relational database management systems. If one uses the no...
Jennifer L. Beckmann, Alan Halverson, Rajasekar Kr...
ICDT
1995
ACM
79views Database» more  ICDT 1995»
15 years 10 months ago
Optimization Using Tuple Subsumption
A tuple t1 of relation R subsumes tuple t2 of R, with respect to a query Q if for every database, tuple t1 derives all, and possibly more, answers to query Q than derived by tuple ...
Venky Harinarayan, Ashish Gupta
SDB
1995
178views Database» more  SDB 1995»
15 years 10 months ago
A Semantics-based Approach to Design of Query Languages for Partial Information
Most of work on partial information in databases asks which operations of standard languages, like relational algebra, can still be performed correctly in the presence of nulls. In...
Leonid Libkin