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  Database and information-retrieval methods for knowledge discovery
Weikum G., Kasneci G., Ramanath M., Suchanek F. Communications of the ACM 52(4): 56-64, 2009.  Type: Article

This excellent article calls for the unification of the information retrieval (IR) and database (DB) communities. The article provides context and background for their separate, yet converging, paths over the past 40 years of computer ...
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May 8 2009  
  Probabilistic information retrieval approach for ranking of database query results
Chaudhuri S., Das G., Hristidis V., Weikum G. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 31(3): 1134-1168, 2006.  Type: Article

When many tuples are returned to a database query, ranking them can be a problem. This paper focuses on the problem of ranking answers to such queries. The problem is similar to the problem of information retrieval, where we operate on...
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Feb 2 2007  
  Recovery guarantees for Internet applications
Barga R., Lomet D., Shegalov G., Weikum G. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 4(3): 289-328, 2004.  Type: Article

A general framework for recovery guarantees in multi-tier applications has been developed by the authors. They introduce a new concept of committed interaction contracts, with exactly-once execution and best failure masking, which is p...
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Oct 12 2004  
  Transactional information systems: theory, algorithms, and the practice of concurrency control and recovery
Weikum G., Vossen G., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2001. 852 pp.  Type: Book (9781558605084)

This is an outstanding text on transaction processing, covering both theoretical and practical aspects of the field. It will serve as an excellent textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses. It will also be useful as a re...
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Aug 1 2001  
  Principles and realization strategies of multilevel transaction management
Weikum G. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 16(1): 132-180, 1991.  Type: Article

The author’s stated goal is to provide guidelines for the practical implementation of general multilevel transaction management schemes. He succeeds in identifying the key schemes, providing analytical evaluations, summarizin...
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Sep 1 1992  

   
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