Spatial data mining, i.e., discovery of interesting characteristics and patterns that may implicitly exist in spatial databases, is a challenging task due to the huge amounts of s...
We propose a location-based query anonymization technique, LBS (k,T)-anonymization, that ensures anonymity of user's query in a specific time window against what we call know...
Amirreza Masoumzadeh, James Joshi, Hassan A. Karim...
We propose a method for measuring the quality of a grouping result, based on the following observation: a better grouping result provides more information about the true, unknown g...
Erik A. Engbers, Michael Lindenbaum, Arnold W. M. ...
In this paper we consider the problem of answering queries using views, with or without ontological constraints, which is important for data integration, query optimization, and d...
Abstract. We present a semantics and answer set programs for relational peer data exchange systems. When a peer answers a query, it exchanges data with other peers in order to supp...