In this paper, we propose a new tunable index scheme, called iMinMax(), that maps points in highdimensional spaces to single-dimensional values determined by their maximum or minim...
Cui Yu, Stéphane Bressan, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee...
The processing of k-NN queries has been studied extensively both in a centralized computing environment and in a structured P2P environment. However, the problem over an unstructur...
Bin Wang, Xiaochun Yang, Guoren Wang, Lei Chen 000...
We demonstrate NetTrails, a declarative platform for maintaining and interactively querying network provenance in a distributed system. Network provenance describes the history an...
Wenchao Zhou, Qiong Fei, Shengzhi Sun, Tao Tao, An...
Information extraction from text databases is a useful paradigm to populate relational tables and unlock the considerable value hidden in plain-text documents. However, information...
The trend towards outsourcing increases the number of documents stored at external service providers. This storage model, however, raises privacy and security concerns because the...