Accurate and efficient integration of geospatial data is an important problem with applications in areas such as emergency response and urban planning. Some of the key challenges ...
Motivated by many applications, top-k query is a fundamental operation in modern database systems. Technological advances have enabled the deployment of large-scale sensor networks...
This report is an expanded version of a paper in AAAI-2006 proceedings. In this report, we investigate the challenges that must be addressed for the Semantic Web to become a feasi...
A statistical database (StatDB) retrieves only aggregate results, as opposed to individual tuples. This paper investigates the construction of a privacy preserving StatDB that can...
Decision support applications involve complex queries on very large databases. Since response times should be small, query optimization is critical. Users typically view the data ...
Venky Harinarayan, Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey D. Ull...