An optimization query asks for one or more data objects that maximize or minimize some function over the data set. We propose a general class of queries, model-based optimization ...
The sequence mining problem consists in finding frequent sequential patterns in a database of time-stamped events. Several application domains require limiting the maximum tempor...
Despite advances in recent years in the area of mandatory access control in database systems, today's information repositories remain vulnerable to inference and data associa...
Steven Dawson, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, P...
Many location-based services require rich and expressive query language support for filtering large amounts of information. In prominent location-based services thousands of conti...
Abstract In this paper we present a mechanism for approximately translating Boolean query constraints across heterogeneous information sources. Achieving the best translation is ch...