The two observations that 1) many XML documents are stored in a database or generated from data stored in a database and 2) processing these documents with XSL stylesheet processo...
Traditional indexes aim at optimizing the node accesses during query processing, which, however, does not necessarily minimize the total cost due to the possibly large number of r...
Skyline queries ask for a set of interesting points from a potentially large set of data points. If we are traveling, for instance, a restaurant might be interesting if there is n...
Data mining services require accurate input data for their results to be meaningful, but privacy concerns may influence users to provide spurious information. We investigate here,...
Several organizations have developed very large market basket databases for the maintenance of customer transactions. New applications, e.g., Web recommendation systems, present th...