Uncertainty in categorical data is commonplace in many applications, including data cleaning, database integration, and biological annotation. In such domains, the correct value o...
Sarvjeet Singh, Chris Mayfield, Sunil Prabhakar, R...
We tackle the difficult problem of summarizing the path/branching structure and value content of an XML database that comprises both numeric and textual values. We introduce a nov...
?In a fuzzy relational database where a relation is a fuzzy set of tuples and ill-known data are represented by possibility distributions, nested fuzzy queries can be expressed in ...
Qi Yang, Chengwen Liu, Jing Wu, Clement T. Yu, Son...
Location information gathered from a variety of sources in the form of sensor data, video streams, human observations, and so on, is often imprecise and uncertain and needs to be ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra,...
The family of threshold algorithm (i.e., TA) has been widely studied for efficiently computing top-k queries. TA uses a sort-merge framework that assumes data lists are pre-sorted...