We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
Computing multidimensional aggregates in high dimensions is a performance bottleneck for many OLAP applications. Obtaining the exact answer to an aggregation query can be prohibit...
Data outsourcing is an emerging paradigm that allows users and companies to give their (potentially sensitive) data to external servers that then become responsible for their stor...
Pierangela Samarati, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimerc...
In contrast to classical databases and IR systems, real-world information systems have to deal increasingly with very vague and diverse structures for information management and s...
Xuan Zhou, Julien Gaugaz, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgan...
Authentication is increasingly relevant to data management. Data is being outsourced to untrusted servers and clients want to securely update and query their data. For example, in ...