Enterprises often need to assess and manage the risk arising from uncertainty in their data. Such uncertainty is typically modeled as a probability distribution over the uncertain...
Peter J. Haas, Christopher M. Jermaine, Subi Arumu...
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...
Data is increasingly being bought and sold online, and Webbased marketplace services have emerged to facilitate these activities. However, current mechanisms for pricing data are ...
Most image retrieval systems perform a linear search over the database to find the closest match to a query. However, databases usually exhibit a natural grouping structure into c...
In this work an R-tree variant, which uses minimum volume covering ellipsoids instead of usual minimum bounding rectangles, is presented. The most significant aspects, which dete...