Abstract. Finding the most accessible locations has a number of applications. For example, a user may want to find an accommodation that is close to different amenities such as s...
Qianlu Lin, Chuan Xiao, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Wei...
Query containment is a fundamental algorithmic problem in database query processing and optimization. Under set semantics, the query-containment problem for conjunctive queries ha...
The general problem of answering top-k queries can be modeled using lists of data items sorted by their local scores. The most efficient algorithm proposed so far for answering to...
Boosting is a general method for improving the accuracy of learning algorithms. We use boosting to construct improved privacy-preserving synopses of an input database. These are da...
Provenance in scientific workflows is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, recording information about the module executions used to produce a data item, as well as the parame...
Susan B. Davidson, Sanjeev Khanna, Sudeepa Roy, Ju...