PIVOT and UNPIVOT, two operators on tabular data that exchange rows and columns, enable data transformations useful in data modeling, data analysis, and data presentation. They ca...
This paper presents a probabilistic relational modelling (implementation) of the major probabilistic retrieval models. Such a high-level implementation is useful since it supports ...
Secure multiparty computation allows parties to jointly compute a function of their private inputs without revealing anything but the output. Theoretical results [2] provide a gen...
Nowadays, increasing needs for information sharing arise due to extensive collaborations among organizations. Organizations desire to provide data access to their collaborators whi...
Fengjun Li, Bo Luo, Peng Liu, Anna Cinzia Squiccia...
Today, information integration has assumed a completely different, complex connotation than what it used to be. The advent of the Internet, the proliferation of information source...