In a mobile service scenario, users query a server for nearby points of interest but they may not want to disclose their locations to the service. Intuitively, location privacy may...
Man Lung Yiu, Christian S. Jensen, Xuegang Huang, ...
We have developed a MultiMedia Visual Information Seeking (MMVIS) Environment that is the first system to support an integrated approach to the direct manipulation specification o...
— Complex ad hoc join queries over enterprise databases are commonly used by business data analysts to understand and analyze a variety of enterprise-wide processes. However, eff...
Xiaoyan Yang, Cecilia M. Procopiuc, Divesh Srivast...
Dictionary-based approaches to query translation have been widely used in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) experiments. Using these approaches, translation has been not...
In this paper we consider general path constraints for semistructured databases. Our general constraints do not suffer from the limitations of the path constraints previously stud...