For some problems, human assistance is needed in addition to automated (algorithmic) computation. In sharp contrast to existing data management approaches, where human input is ei...
We propose a novel mechanism for answering sets of counting queries under differential privacy. Given a workload of counting queries, the mechanism automatically selects a differ...
XQuery is the emerging standard for querying XML data sources. XLive is a light XML/XQuery mediator developed at University of Versailles whose engine processes an XML algebra der...
Tuyet-Tram Dang-Ngoc, Georges Gardarin, Nicolas Tr...
This paper focuses on parallel query optimization. We consider the operator problem and introduce a new class of execution strategies called Linear-Oriented Bushy Trees (LBTs). Co...
Existing estimation approaches for spatial databases often rely on the assumption that data distribution in a small region is uniform, which seldom holds in practice. Moreover, the...