Differential privacy is a notion of privacy that has become very popular in the database community. Roughly, the idea is that a randomized query mechanism provides sufficient priva...
This paper considers a distance metric learning (DML) algorithm for a fingerprinting system, which identifies a query content by finding the fingerprint in the database (DB) that m...
Data exchange deals with inserting data from one database into another database having a different schema. We study and solve a central computational problem of data exchange, nam...
The nearest- or near-neighbor query problems arise in a large variety of database applications, usually in the context of similarity searching. Of late, there has been increasing ...
Background: Analysis of data from high-throughput experiments depends on the availability of well-structured data that describe the assayed biomolecules. Procedures for obtaining ...