Data outsourcing is emerging today as a successful paradigm allowing users and organizations to exploit external services for the distribution of resources. A crucial problem to b...
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Su...
In this paper we observe that k-anonymizing a data set is strikingly similar to building a spatial index over the data set, so similar in fact that classical spatial indexing tech...
This paper reports our first set of results on managing uncertainty in data integration. We posit that data-integration systems need to handle uncertainty at three levels, and do...
Intuitively, aggressive work sharing among concurrent queries in a database system should always improve performance by eliminating redundant computation or data accesses. We show...
Ryan Johnson, Nikos Hardavellas, Ippokratis Pandis...
Manipulation of models and mappings is a common task in the design and development of information systems. Research in Model Management aims at supporting these tasks by providing...
David Kensche, Christoph Quix, Xiang Li 0002, Yong...
In this paper we describe the design and implementation of CellSort − a high performance distributed sort algorithm for the Cell processor. We design CellSort as a distributed b...
The popularity of blogs has been increasing dramatically over the last couple of years. As topics evolve in the blogosphere, keywords align together and form the heart of various ...
Nilesh Bansal, Fei Chiang, Nick Koudas, Frank Wm. ...
A top-k query retrieves the k highest scoring tuples from a data set with respect to a scoring function defined on the attributes of a tuple. The efficient evaluation of top-k q...
Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Nick Koudas, Niko...
GridVine is a Peer Data Management System based on a decentralized access structure. Built following the principle of data independence, it separates a logical layer – where dat...