Client/server information systems use caching techniques to reduce the volume of transmitted data as well as response time and, especially in the case of systems with mobile clien...
With the amount of data in current data warehouse databases growing steadily, random sampling is continuously gaining in importance. In particular, interactive analyses of large d...
In emerging applications such as location-based services, sensor monitoring and biological management systems, the values of the database items are naturally imprecise. For these ...
Reynold Cheng, Lei Chen 0002, Jinchuan Chen, Xike ...
In a database system, disclosure of confidential private data may occur if users can put together the answers of past queries. Traditional access control mechanisms cannot guard a...
Given a set P of products, a set O of customers, and a product p P, a bichromatic reverse skyline query retrieves all the customers in O that do not find any other product in P t...
Xiaobing Wu, Yufei Tao, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Lin...
The classic Generalized Sequential Patterns (GSP) algorithm returns all frequent sequences present in a database. However, usually a few ones are interesting from a user's po...
Activity and user engagement in social media such as web logs, wikis, online forums or social networks has been increasing at unprecedented rates. In relation to social behavior i...
Schema mappings define relationships between schemas in a declarative way. We demonstrate MVT, a mapping validation tool that allows the designer to ask whether the mapping has ce...
While there is an increasing need to share data that may contain personal information, such data sharing must preserve individual privacy without disclosing any identifiable infor...
James J. Gardner, Li Xiong, Kanwei Li, James J. Lu