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Hierarchical Data Summarization

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Hierarchical data summarization

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Given a set of records, data summaries on different attributes are frequently produced in data management systems. Commonly used examples are the number of records that fall into a set of ranges of an attribute or the minimum values in these ranges. To improve the efficiency in accessing summaries at different resolutions or due to a direct need for investigating a hierarchy that is inherent to the data type, such as dates, hierarchical versions of data summaries can be used. A data structure or algorithm is labeled as hierarchical if that structure or algorithm uses the concept of subcomponents to systematically obtain conceptually larger components. The method of obtaining a larger component is regularly induced by the user’s understanding of the domain as well as the fact that hierarchies can also be created automatically by a set of rules embedded into the system. Thus, rules used in a data structure’s creation, e.g., B+-trees,...

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  1. Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Egemen Tanin

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Mohammed Eunus Ali

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    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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Tanin, E., Ali, M.E. (2018). Hierarchical Data Summarization. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_536

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