Concise Descriptions of Subsets of Structured Sets
Summary: Formulate L‑MDL: find the shortest expression in a language L that defines a subset of a structured set modeled by a set cover, capturing hierarchies (XML) and multidimensional/OLAP schemas. Provide complexity results, an efficient hierarchical algorithm, and applications to result summarization and ROLAP/XML query optimization. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Alberto O. Mendelzon (University of Toronto)
- 2. Ken Q. Pu (University of Toronto)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{mendelzon_pods03,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '03},
title = {{Concise Descriptions of Subsets of Structured Sets}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/773153.773166},
doi = {10.1145/773153.773166},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Mendelzon, Alberto O. and Pu, Ken Q.},
year = {2003}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,204 | MDL Summarization with Holes | 2005 | VLDB | 6.834169e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 304 | Automatic Subspace Clustering of High Dimensional Data for Data Mining Applications | 1998 | SIGMOD | 0.00021917388 |
| 1,107 | Simultaneous Optimization and Evaluation of Multiple Dimensional Queries | 1998 | SIGMOD | 0.00012145695 |
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