Should I ask here about an academic paper on indexing?

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I'm researching bitmap indexes for an MSc assignment.

A good early paper on the topic is "Bit Transposed Files" by Wong et al, published in 1985.

I find the paper's description of Composite Encoding a little unclear, and would like some help to understand it.

Is this a good place to ask such a question?

Can you point me to existing questions or advice that I should follow in asking such a question?

If this is not a good place, is there a more appropriate place? The Theoretical Computer Science Stack Exchange seems to love stuff like this.

I think that'd be on-topic, I'd say go for it and we can assess as we go along: thanks for asking first :) — Jack Douglas, May 7, 2013 at 17:04
Possible duplicate: Should database theory questions be posted here, in cstheory or in cs?. Its accepted answer suggests it's okay for me to ask such a question, as long as it's objective and fits in the FAQ. The FAQ doesn't mention academic papers explicitly. — Iain Samuel McLean Elder, May 7, 2013 at 17:05
I posted my question: How to decode a query on a composite unary-encoded attribute?. — Iain Samuel McLean Elder, May 7, 2013 at 19:54

jcolebrand · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-08 01:35:19Z

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YES.

answered May 8, 2013 at 1:35

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