With the advent of next-generation DNA sequencing machines, there is an increasing need for the development of computational tools that can anchor accurately and expediently the m...
In line with the insight that “one size” of databases will not fit all application needs [19], the database community is currently exploring various alternatives to commodity...
When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
Relational databases are periodically vacuumed to remove tuples that have expired. During the discovery phase of litigation, plaintiffs ask defendants for access to information re...
A recurring manual task in data integration, ontology alignment or model management is finding mappings between complex meta data structures. In order to reduce the manual effor...
This paper presents P3Q, a fully decentralized gossip-based protocol to personalize query processing in social tagging systems. P3Q dynamically associates each user with social ac...
There are two broad approaches to query evaluation over probabilistic databases: (1) Intensional Methods proceed by manipulating expressions over symbolic events associated with u...
The existing solutions to privacy preserving publication can be classified into the theoretical and heuristic categories. The former guarantees provably low information loss, whe...
Information networks are ubiquitous in many applications and analysis on such networks has attracted significant attention in the academic communities. One of the most important ...