An ontology is an explicit specification of shared conceptualization. The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies, a...
Abstract. The problem of answering queries using views has been studied extensively due to its relevance in a wide variety of data-management applications. In these applications, w...
In large data recording and warehousing environments, it is often advantageous to provide fast, approximate answers to queries, whenever possible. Before DBMSs providing highly-ac...
Privacy is a serious concern when microdata need to be released for ad hoc analyses. The privacy goals of existing privacy protection approaches (e.g., -anonymity and -diversity) ...
Qing Zhang, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, Ting Y...
Given a dataset containing sensitive personal information, a statistical database answers aggregate queries in a manner that preserves individual privacy. We consider the problem ...