Abstract-Failures of Internet services and enterprise systems lead to user dissatisfaction and considerable loss of revenue. Since manual diagnosis is often laborious and slow, the...
Abstract-- Answering approximate queries on string collections is important in applications such as data cleaning, query relaxation, and spell checking, where inconsistencies and e...
A previously proposed Keyword Search paradigm produces, as a query result, a ranked list of Object Summaries (OSs); each OS summarizes all data held in a relational database about ...
Location cloaking has been proposed and well studied to protect user privacy. It blurs the accurate user location (i.e., a point with coordinates) and replaces it with a well-shape...
Due to its considerable ease of use, relational keyword search (R-KWS) has become increasingly popular. Its simplicity, however, comes at the cost of intensive query processing. Sp...