In a mobile service scenario, users query a server for nearby points of interest but they may not want to disclose their locations to the service. Intuitively, location privacy may...
Man Lung Yiu, Christian S. Jensen, Xuegang Huang, ...
The increased use of video data sets for multimedia-based applications has created a demand for strong video database support, including efficient methods for handling the content...
Walid G. Aref, Moustafa A. Hammad, Ann Christine C...
We address the problem of generating a mediated schema from a set of relational data source schemas and conjunctive queries that specify where those schemas overlap. Unlike past a...
Fuzzy logics are in most cases based on an ad-hoc decision about the interpretation of the conjunction. If they are useful or not can typically be found out only by testing them wi...
In this paper, we propose a set of similarity metrics for manipulating collections of values occuring in XML documents. Following the data model presented in TAX algebra, we treat...
Carina F. Dorneles, Carlos A. Heuser, Andrei E. N....