Keyword search techniques that take advantage of XML structure make it very easy for ordinary users to query XML databases, but current approaches to processing these queries rely...
In a database system, disclosure of confidential private data may occur if users can put together the answers of past queries. Traditional access control mechanisms cannot guard a...
Ranking queries are essential tools to process large amounts of probabilistic data that encode exponentially many possible deterministic instances. In many applications where unce...
Wikipedia has become an important source of information which is growing very rapidly. However, the existing infrastructure for querying this information is limited and often igno...
Huong Nguyen, Thanh Nguyen, Hoa Nguyen, Juliana Fr...
Webcams, microphones, pressure gauges and other sensors provide exciting new opportunities for querying and monitoring the physical world. In this paper we focus on querying wide ...
Amol Deshpande, Suman Kumar Nath, Phillip B. Gibbo...