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ICDE
2007
IEEE
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t-Closeness: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity and l-Diversity
The k-anonymity privacy requirement for publishing microdata requires that each equivalence class (i.e., a set of records that are indistinguishable from each other with respect to...
Ninghui Li, Tiancheng Li, Suresh Venkatasubramania...

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Spatio-Temporal Histograms
This paper presents a framework for building and continuously maintaining spatio-temporal histograms (ST-Histograms, for short). ST-Histograms are used for selectivity estimation o...
Hicham G. Elmongui, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Ar...

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Continuous Query Processing of Spatio-temporal Data Streams in PLACE
The tremendous increase in the use of cellular phones, GPS-like devices, and RFIDs results in highly dynamic environments where objects as well as queries are continuously moving. ...
Mohamed F. Mokbel, Xiaopeng Xiong, Moustafa A. Ham...

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SEA-CNN: Scalable Processing of Continuous K-Nearest Neighbor Queries in Spatio-temporal Databases
Location-aware environments are characterized by a large number of objects and a large number of continuous queries. Both the objects and continuous queries may change their locati...
Xiaopeng Xiong, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Aref

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Towards Privacy-Aware Location-Based Database Servers
The wide spread of location-based services results in a strong market for location-detection devices (e.g., GPS-like devices, RFIDs, handheld devices, and cellular phones). Example...
Mohamed F. Mokbel

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LUGrid: Update-tolerant Grid-based Indexing for Moving Objects
Indexing moving objects is a fundamental issue in spatiotemporal databases. In this paper, we propose an adaptive Lazy-Update Grid-based index (LUGrid, for short) that minimizes th...
Xiaopeng Xiong, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Aref

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A Peer-to-Peer Spatial Cloaking Algorithm for Anonymous Location-based Services
This paper tackles a major privacy threat in current location-based services where users have to report their exact locations to the database server in order to obtain their desire...
Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Xuan Liu
VLDB
2006
ACM
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The New Casper: Query Processing for Location Services without Compromising Privacy
This paper tackles a major privacy concern in current location-based services where users have to continuously report their locations to the database server in order to obtain the ...
Mohamed F. Mokbel, Chi-Yin Chow, Walid G. Aref

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SCRAP: A Statistical Approach for Creating Compact Representational Query Workload based on Performance Bottlenecks
James A. Skarie, Biplob K. Debnath, David J. Lilja, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. "SCRAP: A Statistical Approach for Creating Compact Representational Query Workload based on Perform...
James A. Skarie, Biplob K. Debnath, David J. Lilja...

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Towards Efficient Search on Unstructured Data: An Intelligent-Storage Approach
Applications that create and consume unstructured data have grown both in scale of storage requirements and complexity of search primitives. We consider two such applications: exha...
Aravindan Raghuveer, Biplob K. Debnath, David Hung...