In an “uncertain database”, an object o is associated with a multi-dimensional probability density function (pdf), which describes the likelihood that o appears at each positi...
Yufei Tao, Reynold Cheng, Xiaokui Xiao, Wang Kay N...
Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...
XML data integration tools are facing a variety of challenges for their efficient and effective operation. Among these is the requirement to handle a variety of inconsistencies or...
Sudipto Guha, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, Ting...
Given a query iris image, the goal of indexing is to identify and retrieve a small subset of candidate irides from the database in order to determine a possible match. This can si...
We identify crucial design issues in building a distributed inverted index for a large collection of web pages. We introduce a novel pipelining technique for structuring the core ...