There are a lot of application domains, e.g. sensor databases, traffic management or recognition systems, where objects have to be compared based on vague and uncertain data. Feat...
Thomas Bernecker, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Ren...
We consider several private database query problems. The starting point of this work is the element rank problem: the server holds a database of n integers, and the user an integer...
Existing work on similar sequence matching has focused on either whole matching or range subsequence matching. In this paper, we present novel methods for ranked subsequence match...
Background: The MEDLINE database contains over 12 million references to scientific literature, ut 3/4 of recent articles including an abstract of the publication. Retrieval of ent...
Text search engines return a set of k documents ranked by similarity to a query. Typically, documents and queries are drawn from natural language text, which can readily be partiti...
J. Shane Culpepper, Gonzalo Navarro, Simon J. Pugl...