In this paper, we propose DBSampler, a query execution mechanism to answer "partial selection" queries in peerto-peer databases. A partial selection query is an arbitrar...
Physical database design is critical to the performance of a large-scale DBMS. The corresponding automated design tuning tools need to select the best physical design from a large...
Database views are extensively used to represent unmaterialized tables. Applications rarely distinguish between a materialized base table and a virtual view, thus, they may issue ...
K-Anonymity has been proposed as a mechanism for protecting privacy in microdata publishing, and numerous recoding "models" have been considered for achieving kanonymity...
Kristen LeFevre, David J. DeWitt, Raghu Ramakrishn...
Location-based services and data mining algorithms analyzing objects moving on a complex traffic network are becoming increasingly important. In this paper, we introduce a new app...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...