A relational database often yields a large set of tuples as the result of a query. Users browse this result set to find the information they require. If the result set is large, ...
In this paper, we present a novel PLSA-based aspect model and turn cross-media retrieval into two parts of multi-modal integration and correlation propagation. We first use multiva...
Public data sharing is utilized in a number of businesses to facilitate the exchange of information. Privacy constraints are usually enforced to prevent unwanted inference of info...
Recently, the issue of Statistic Disclosure Control (SDC) has attracted much attention. SDC is a very important part of data security dealing with the protection of databases. Micr...
Publishing a database instance containing individual information poses two kinds of privacy risk: presence leakage, by which the attackers can explicitly identify individuals in (...
Abstract. Privacy protection in publishing transaction data is an important problem. A key feature of transaction data is the extreme sparsity, which renders any single technique i...
Abstract. Masking methods protect data sets against disclosure by perturbing the original values before publication. Masking causes some information loss (masked data are not exact...
Quality of service (QoS) in streaming of continuous media over the Internet is poor, which is partly due to variations in delays, bandwidth limitations, and packet losses. Althoug...
A major challenge for ontology integration is to deal with inconsistencies. Existing merging tools are based on classical logic and are forced to avoid inconsistencies (to prevent...
Fahim T. Imam, Wendy MacCaull, Margaret Ann Kenned...
This paper extends pre-existing digital divide conceptualizations to further investigate the important issue of mismatches between the ontologies of state-created information syst...