Recently, several research efforts have addressed answering skyline queries efficiently over large datasets. However, this research lacks methods to compute these queries over un...
Mohamed E. Khalefa, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Justin J. L...
Preference queries have received considerable attention in the recent past, due to their use in selecting the most preferred objects, especially when the selection criteria are con...
Maria Kontaki, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Yannis M...
Privacy is an important issue in data publishing. Many organizations distribute non-aggregate personal data for research, and they must take steps to ensure that an adversary cann...
Bee-Chung Chen, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Kristen LeFevr...
We propose and investigate from the algorithmic standpoint a novel form of fuzzy query called approximately dominating representatives or ADRs. The ADRs of a multidimensional point...
Consider multiple users searching for a hotel room, based on size, cost, distance to the beach, etc. Users may have variable preferences expressed by different weights on the attri...