A k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) query retrieves k objects from a database that are considered to be the closest to a given query point. Numerous techniques have been proposed in the p...
Due to the large number of attacks on open networks, information theft becomes a more and more severe problem. Secure computation can offer highly assured confidentiality protecti...
Record linkage is an important data integration task that has many practical uses for matching, merging and duplicate removal in large and diverse databases. However, a quadratic ...
Timothy de Vries, Hui Ke, Sanjay Chawla, Peter Chr...
Background: The conservation of gene order among prokaryotic genomes can provide valuable insight into gene function, protein interactions, or events by which genomes have evolved...
Christine Fong, Laurence Rohmer, Matthew Radey, Mi...
Ranking queries are essential tools to process large amounts of probabilistic data that encode exponentially many possible deterministic instances. In many applications where unce...