Most data integration applications require a matching between the schemas of the respective data sets. We show how the existence of duplicates within these data sets can be exploi...
The demand for the secondary use of medical data is increasing steadily to allow for the provision of better quality health care. Two important issues pertaining to this sharing o...
We present the first complete translation of XPath into an algebra, paving the way for a comprehensive, state-of-theart XPath (and later on, XQuery) compiler based on algebraic op...
Matthias Brantner, Sven Helmer, Carl-Christian Kan...
A novel data source for assessing traffic conditions is floating car data (FCD) in the form of vehicle tracking data, or, in database terms, trajectory data. This work proposes pr...
To preserve client privacy in the data mining process, a variety of techniques based on random perturbation of individual data records have been proposed recently. In this paper, ...
Databases are at the core of successful businesses. Due to the voluminous stores of personal data being held by companies today, preserving privacy has become a crucial requiremen...
Rakesh Agrawal, Paul Bird, Tyrone Grandison, Jerry...