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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
210views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 4 months ago
Private queries in location based services: anonymizers are not necessary
Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...
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DOCENG
2004
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Querying XML documents by dynamic shredding
With the wide adoption of XML as a standard data representation and exchange format, querying XML documents becomes increasingly important. However, relational database systems co...
Hui Zhang 0003, Frank Wm. Tompa
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
122views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
15 years 9 months ago
On polynomial-time preference elicitation with value queries
Preference elicitation — the process of asking queries to determine parties’ preferences — is a key part of many problems in electronic commerce. For example, a shopping age...
Martin Zinkevich, Avrim Blum, Tuomas Sandholm
EDBT
1998
ACM
155views Database» more  EDBT 1998»
15 years 8 months ago
Improving the Query Performance of High-Dimensional Index Structures by Bulk-Load Operations
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a new bulk-loading technique for high-dimensional indexes which represent an important component of multimedia database systems. Since it is ver...
Stefan Berchtold, Christian Böhm, Hans-Peter ...
DLOG
2003
15 years 5 months ago
Incremental Query Answering for Implementing Document Retrieval Services
Agent systems that search the Semantic Web are seen as killer applications for description logic (DL) inference engines. The guiding examples for the Semantic Web involve informat...
Volker Haarslev, Ralf Möller