Uncertain data arises in a number of domains, including data integration and sensor networks. Top-k queries that rank results according to some user-defined score are an important...
Over a traditional Database Management System (DBMS), the answer to an aggregate query is usually much smaller than the answer to a similar nonaggregate query. Therefore, we call ...
Privacy-preserving query-answering systems answer queries while provably guaranteeing that sensitive information is kept secret. One very attractive notion of privacy is perfect p...
Abstract. We show how to specify and use the metadata for a virtual and relational data integration system under the local-as-view (LAV) approach. We use XML and RuleML for represe...
Peer-to-peer systems are mainly used for object sharing although they can provide the infrastructure for many other applications. In this paper, we extend the idea of object shari...
Ozgur D. Sahin, Abhishek Gupta, Divyakant Agrawal,...