The paper investigates the use of topological annotations (called topological invariants) to answer topological queries in spatial databases. The focus is on the translation of to...
With the variety of human life, people are interested in various matters for each one’s unique reason, for which a machine maybe a better counselor than a human. This paper prop...
In this paper we study the problem of approximately releasing the cut function of a graph while preserving differential privacy, and give new algorithms (and new analyses of exis...
Retrieval queries that combine structural constraints with keyword search represent a significant challenge to XML data management systems. Queries are expected to be answered as...
Mariano P. Consens, Xin Gu, Yaron Kanza, Flavio Ri...
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...