A hierarchy is an arrangement of qualitative values in a tree with certain properties. Hierarchies allow to define the confusion conf(r, s) in using qualitative value r instead of ...
Keyword search has been recently extended to relational databases to retrieve information from text-rich attributes. However, all the existing methods focus on finding individual...
We examine the problem of evaluating selection queries over imprecisely represented objects. Such objects are used either because they are much smaller in size than the precise on...
We present some sufficient conditions ensuring the upper semicontinuity and the continuity of the Bregman projection operator Π g C and the relative projection operator P g C in...
A distributed system for approximate query answering on sensor network data is proposed, where a suitable compression technique is exploited to represent data and support query an...