Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature. By processing a text database with information extraction systems, we can define a variety of structured "relati...
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
Partial replication is one type of optimization to speed up execution of queries submitted to large datasets. In partial replication, a portion of the dataset is extracted, re-org...
: Query transformation is a serious hurdle on semantic peer-to-peer environment. For interoperability between peers, queries sent from a source peer have to be efficiently transfor...
Abstract—Extensive work has been devoted to private information retrieval and privacy preserving data mining. To protect user privacy from search engines, however, most current a...
Shaozhi Ye, Shyhtsun Felix Wu, Raju Pandey, Hao Ch...