Abstract-- When dealing with massive quantities of data, topk queries are a powerful technique for returning only the k most relevant tuples for inspection, based on a scoring func...
In recent years, the data management community has begun to consider situations in which data access is closely tied to network routing and distributed acquisition: examples includ...
Mengmeng Liu, Nicholas E. Taylor, Wenchao Zhou, Za...
The Semantic Web envisions a World Wide Web in which data is described with rich semantics and applications can pose complex queries. To this point, researchers have defined new l...
Alon Y. Halevy, Zachary G. Ives, Peter Mork, Igor ...
In the setting of secure computation, a set of parties wish to securely compute some function of their inputs, in the presence of an adversary. The adversary in question may be st...
In this paper we provide a fast, data-driven solution to the failing query problem: given a query that returns an empty answer, how can one relax the query's constraints so t...