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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
142views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Cost-based variable-length-gram selection for string collections to support approximate queries efficiently
Approximate queries on a collection of strings are important in many applications such as record linkage, spell checking, and Web search, where inconsistencies and errors exist in...
Xiaochun Yang, Bin Wang, Chen Li
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
210views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Private queries in location based services: anonymizers are not necessary
Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
107views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Outlier-robust clustering using independent components
How can we efficiently find a clustering, i.e. a concise description of the cluster structure, of a given data set which contains an unknown number of clusters of different shape ...
Christian Böhm, Christos Faloutsos, Claudia P...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
139views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
SQAK: doing more with keywords
Today's enterprise databases are large and complex, often relating hundreds of entities. Enabling ordinary users to query such databases and derive value from them has been o...
Sandeep Tata, Guy M. Lohman
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
198views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 7 months ago
Addressing diverse user preferences in SQL-query-result navigation
Database queries are often exploratory and users often find their queries return too many answers, many of them irrelevant. Existing work either categorizes or ranks the results t...
Zhiyuan Chen, Tao Li