Differential Privacy (DP) has emerged as a formal, flexible framework for privacy protection, with a guarantee that is agnostic to auxiliary information and that admits simple ru...
Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in convent...
Incorporating probabilities into the semantics of incomplete databases has posed many challenges, forcing systems to sacrifice modeling power, scalability, or treatment of relatio...
Materialized views offer opportunities for significant performance gain in query evaluation by providing fast access to pre-computed data. The question of when and how to use a ma...
Abstract— Performance of proxy caches for database federations that serve a large number of users is crucially dependent on its physical design. Current techniques, automated or ...
Tanu Malik, Xiaodan Wang, Randal C. Burns, Debabra...