Answering imprecise database queries: A novel approach

Proceedings of the Interntational Workshop on Web Information and Data Management

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 126-133

  Nambiar, Ullas ^a   Kambhampati, Subbarao ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Imprecise queries; Query similarity; Relational database

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATA MANAGEMENT; IMPRECISE QUERIES; QUERY FORMULATION; QUERY SIMILARITY;

RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 18744366648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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