In this paper, we propose a new tunable index scheme, called iMinMax, that maps points in high dimensional spaces to single dimension values determined by their maximum or minimu...
As databases get widely deployed, it becomes increasingly important to reduce the overhead of database administration. An important aspect of data administration that critically i...
The generalization index system is one of the critical issues for computer-aided land use database generalization. This paper studies the scale and land use pattern effects on lan...
Abstract. A new simple and efficient database encryption scheme is presented. The new scheme enables encrypting the entire content of the database without changing its structure. I...
Let be a finite, ordered alphabet, and consider a string x = x1x2 . . . xn n . A secondary index for x answers alphabet range queries of the form: Given a range [al, ar] , retu...