A mediator system is a kind of a meta-search engine that provides a seamlessly integrated search service for diverse search engines (collections). Since collections of a mediator ...
Data mining is the process of deriving knowledge from data. The architecture of a data mining system plays a significant role in the efficiency with which data is mined. It is pro...
Uncertain data arises in a number of domains, including data integration and sensor networks. Top-k queries that rank results according to some user-defined score are an important...
We study query authentication schemes, algorithmic and cryptographic constructions that provide efficient and secure protocols for verifying the results of queries over structured...
This paper addresses the efficient processing of top-k queries in wide-area distributed data repositories where the index lists for the attribute values (or text terms) of a query...
Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafillou, Gerhard Wei...