Microaggregation is one of the most employed microdata protection methods. The idea is to build clusters of at least k original records, and then replace them with the centroid of...
We consider an environment of numerous moving objects, equipped with location-sensing devices and capable of communicating with a central coordinator. In this setting, we investig...
To provide users with only relevant data from the huge amount of available information, personalization systems utilize preferences to allow users to express their interest on spe...
Data exchange is the problem of transforming data structured under a schema (called source) into data structured under a different schema (called target). The emphasis of data exc...
Index trees created using distance based indexing are difficult to maintain online since the distance function involved is often costly to compute. This problem is intensified whe...
Cluster based replication solutions are an attractive mechanism to provide both high-availability and scalability for the database backend within the multi-tier information system...
With the explosion in the amount of semi-structured data users access and store in personal information management systems, there is a need for complex search tools to retrieve of...
In response to regulatory focus on secure retention of electronic records, businesses are using magnetic disks configured as write-once read-many (WORM) compliance storage devices...
Music information retrieval is becoming very important with the ever-increasing growth of music content in digital libraries, peer-to-peer systems and the internet. While it is ea...
Bin Cui, H. V. Jagadish, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee T...