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SIGMOD
2003
ACM
145views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
14 years 7 months ago
Evaluating Probabilistic Queries over Imprecise Data
Many applications employ sensors for monitoring entities such as temperature and wind speed. A centralized database tracks these entities to enable query processing. Due to contin...
Reynold Cheng, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sunil Prabha...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Answering approximate queries over autonomous web databases
To deal with the problem of empty or too little answers returned from a Web database in response to a user query, this paper proposes a novel approach to provide relevant and rank...
Xiangfu Meng, Z. M. Ma, Li Yan
EDBT
2009
ACM
127views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Answering aggregate keyword queries on relational databases using minimal group-bys
Keyword search has been recently extended to relational databases to retrieve information from text-rich attributes. However, all the existing methods focus on finding individual...
Bin Zhou 0002, Jian Pei
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Concept-based interactive query expansion
Despite the recent advances in search quality, the fast increase in the size of the Web collection has introduced new challenges for Web ranking algorithms. In fact, there are sti...
Bruno M. Fonseca, Paulo Braz Golgher, Bruno P&ocir...
EDBT
2010
ACM
172views Database» more  EDBT 2010»
14 years 19 days ago
Privacy preserving group nearest neighbor queries
User privacy in location-based services has attracted great interest in the research community. We introduce a novel framework based on a decentralized architecture for privacy pr...
Tanzima Hashem, Lars Kulik, Rui Zhang