ConQueSt is a constraint-based querying system devised with the aim of supporting the intrinsically exploratory nature of pattern discovery. It provides users with an expressive c...
Francesco Bonchi, Fosca Giannotti, Claudio Lucches...
"Sparse" data, in which relations have many attributes that are null for most tuples, presents a challenge for relational database management systems. If one uses the no...
Jennifer L. Beckmann, Alan Halverson, Rajasekar Kr...
In applications of biometric databases the typical task is to identify individuals according to features which are not exactly known. Reasons for this inexactness are varying meas...
Similarity search in time series data is an active area of research. In this paper, we introduce the novel concept of threshold-similarity queries in time series databases which r...
Alexey Pryakhin, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Johannes A&sz...
In applications that produce a large amount of data describing the paths of moving objects, there is a need to ask questions about the interaction of objects over a long recorded ...
The rapid increase in the data volumes for the past few decades has intensified the need for high processing power for database and data mining applications. Researchers have acti...
Anastassia Ailamaki, Naga K. Govindaraju, Dinesh M...
Peer-to-peer databases are becoming prevalent on the Internet for distribution and sharing of documents, applications, and other digital media. The problem of answering large scal...
Benjamin Arai, Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Va...
The detection of duplicate tuples, corresponding to the same real-world entity, is an important task in data integration and cleaning. While many techniques exist to identify such...
We present a secure network service for sovereign information sharing whose only trusted component is an off-theshelf secure coprocessor. The participating data providers send enc...
Rakesh Agrawal, Dmitri Asonov, Murat Kantarcioglu,...
In this paper, we discuss the inverse classification problem, in which we desire to define the features of an incomplete record in such a way that will result in a desired class l...