Abstract-- Privacy protection is a major concern when microdata needs to be released for ad hoc analyses. This has led to a lot of recent research in privacy goals and table anonym...
The goal of a data integration system is to provide a uniform interface to a multitude of data sources. Given a user query formulated in this interface, the system translates it i...
Uncertain data are inherent in many applications such as environmental surveillance and quantitative economics research. As an important problem in many applications, KNN query has...
Keyword search in relational databases (RDBs) has been extensively studied recently. A keyword search (or a keyword query) in RDBs is specified by a set of keywords to explore the...
The All Nearest Neighbor (ANN) operation is a commonly used primitive for analyzing large multi-dimensional datasets. Since computing ANN is very expensive, in previous works R*-t...