An approximate search query on a collection of strings finds those strings in the collection that are similar to a given query string, where similarity is defined using a given si...
The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
This paper shows a scheme for incremental evaluation of XPath queries. Here, we focus on a monotone fragment of XPath, i.e., when a data is deleted from (or inserted to) the datab...
Differential Privacy (DP) has emerged as a formal, flexible framework for privacy protection, with a guarantee that is agnostic to auxiliary information and that admits simple ru...
Sharing of structured data in P2P overlays is a challenging problem, especially in the absence of a global schema. The nature of structured data stored in the overlay enforces stri...