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PVLDB
2010
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15 years 24 days ago
Regret-Minimizing Representative Databases
We propose the k-representative regret minimization query (k-regret) as an operation to support multi-criteria decision making. Like top-k, the k-regret query assumes that users h...
Danupon Nanongkai, Atish Das Sarma, Ashwin Lall, R...
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GIS
2009
ACM
15 years 5 days ago
LBS (k, T)-anonymity: a spatio-temporal approach to anonymity for location-based service users
We propose a location-based query anonymization technique, LBS (k,T)-anonymization, that ensures anonymity of user's query in a specific time window against what we call know...
Amirreza Masoumzadeh, James Joshi, Hassan A. Karim...
IUI
2003
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Towards a theory of natural language interfaces to databases
The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...
Ana-Maria Popescu, Oren Etzioni, Henry A. Kautz
SSDBM
2003
IEEE
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15 years 7 months ago
Stream Window Join: Tracking Moving Objects in Sensor-Network Databases
The widespread use of sensor networks presents revolutionary opportunities for life and environmental science applications. Many of these applications involve continuous queries t...
Moustafa A. Hammad, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmaga...
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Location cache for web queries
This paper proposes a strategy to reduce the amount of hardware involved in the solution of search engine queries. It proposes using a secondary compact cache that keeps minimal i...
Mauricio Marín, Flavio Ferrarotti, Marcelo ...