The relative difference between two data values is of interest in a number of application domains including temporal and spatial applications, schema versioning, data warehousing...
John F. Roddick, Kathleen Hornsby, Denise de Vries
—Recently, many new applications, such as sensor data monitoring and mobile device tracking, raise up the issue of uncertain data management. Compared to “certain” data, the ...
Column-oriented database systems [19, 23] perform better than traditional row-oriented database systems on analytical workloads such as those found in decision support and busines...
: In most commercial enterprises, information is scattered across a large number of (legacy) data stores. Moreover, it is nearly impossible to obtain funding to replace these data ...
As distributed computing systems grow in size, complexity and variety of application, the problem of protecting sensitive data from unauthorized disclosure and tampering becomes i...