Data anonymization techniques have been the subject of intense investigation in recent years, for many kinds of structured data, including tabular, item set and graph data. They e...
The goal of data fusion is to combine several representations of one real world object into a single, consistent representation, e.g., in data integration. A very popular operator...
Many database applications have the emerging need to support fuzzy queries that ask for strings that are similar to a given string, such as “name similar to smith” and “tele...
In this paper, we propose a novel transductive learning framework named manifold-ranking based image retrieval (MRBIR). Given a query image, MRBIR first makes use of a manifold ra...
The Distributed Information Search COmponent (Disco) is a prototype heterogeneous distributed database that accesses underlying data sources. The Disco prototype currently focuses...