The paper investigates the question of whether a partially closed database has complete information to answer a query. In practice an enterprise often maintains master data Dm, a ...
d Abstract] Guizhen Yang Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA Michael Kifer Dept. of Computer Science Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 1...
We define a new interactive differentially private mechanism — the median mechanism — for answering arbitrary predicate queries that arrive online. Given fixed accuracy and...
Our objective is to improve the performance of keyword based image search engines by re-ranking their baseline results. To this end, we address three limitations of existing searc...
Semantic caching is an important technology for improving the response time of future user queries specified over remote servers. This paper deals with the fundamental query conta...