In emerging applications such as location-based services, sensor monitoring and biological management systems, the values of the database items are naturally imprecise. For these ...
Reynold Cheng, Lei Chen 0002, Jinchuan Chen, Xike ...
We study the problem of answering queries posed on virtual views of XML documents, a problem commonly encountered when enforcing XML access control and integrating data. We approa...
In relational database systems a combination of privileges and views is employed to limit a user’s access and to hide non-public data. The data privacy problem is to decide wheth...
We present ISENS, a distributed, end-to-end, ontologybased information integration system. In response to a user’s query, our system is capable of retrieving facts from data sou...
We investigate the problem of ranking answers to a database query when many tuples are returned. We adapt and apply principles of probabilistic models from Information Retrieval f...