Abstract. A usage scenario of bio-ontologies is hypothesis testing, such as finding relationships or new subconcepts in the data linked to the ontology. Whilst validating the hypot...
As Cloud Computing becomes prevalent, sensitive information are being increasingly centralized into the cloud. For the protection of data privacy, sensitive data has to be encrypte...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
Advanced Data Mining applications require more and more support from relational database engines. Especially clustering applications in high dimensional features space demand a pr...
Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...