Incomplete databases, that is, databases that are missing data, are present in many research domains. It is important to derive techniques to access these databases efficiently. We...
Guadalupe Canahuate, Michael Gibas, Hakan Ferhatos...
—Users querying massive social networks or RDF databases are often not 100% certain about what they are looking for due to the complexity of the query or heterogeneity of the dat...
We consider the class of database programs and address the problem of minimizing the cost of their exchanges with the database server. This cost partly consists of query execution...
Geographic information systems (GIS) must support large georeferenced data sets. Due to the size of these data sets finding exact answers to spatial queries can be very time consum...
Wan D. Bae, Shayma Alkobaisi, Scott T. Leutenegger
—In industries such as healthcare, there is a need to electronically share privacy-sensitive data across distinct organizations. We show how this can be done while allowing organ...