Abstract--Releasing person-specific data could potentially reveal sensitive information of individuals. k-anonymization is a promising privacy protection mechanism in data publishi...
Benjamin C. M. Fung, Ke Wang, Lingyu Wang, Mourad ...
In recent years, relevance feedback has been studied extensively as a way to improve performance of content-based image retrieval (CBIR). Since users are usually unwilling to prov...
Tao Qin, Xu-Dong Zhang, Tie-Yan Liu, De-Sheng Wang...
Estimates of predicate selectivities by database query optimizers often differ significantly from those actually encountered during query execution, leading to poor plan choices a...
We present SEMANDAQ, a prototype system for improving the quality of relational data. Based on the recently proposed conditional functional dependencies (CFDs), it detects and rep...
We consider a model of random trees similar to the split trees of Devroye [30] in which a set of items is recursively partitioned. Our model allows for more flexibility in the cho...