Abstract. The notion of user preference in database modeling has recently received much attention in advanced applications, such as personalization of e-services, since it captures...
Abstract— Performance of proxy caches for database federations that serve a large number of users is crucially dependent on its physical design. Current techniques, automated or ...
Tanu Malik, Xiaodan Wang, Randal C. Burns, Debabra...
This paper presents PrivacyGrid - a framework for supporting anonymous location-based queries in mobile information delivery systems. The PrivacyGrid framework offers three unique...
We report on event recognition within the life logging application IYOUIT for the automatic creation of static diary-like Blogs. Based on the qualitative context histories produced...
Databases may not satisfy integrity constraints (ICs) for several reasons. Nevertheless, in most of the cases an important part of the data is still consistent wrt certain desired...