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...
Reluctance of data owners to share their possibly confidential or proprietary data with others who own related databases is a serious impediment to conducting a mutually beneficia...
Ashish P. Sanil, Alan F. Karr, Xiaodong Lin, Jerom...
We consider query optimization techniques for data intensive P2P applications. We show how to adapt an old technique from deductive databases, namely Query-Sub-Query (QSQ), to a s...
The Voronoi diagram is an important technique for answering nearest-neighbor queries for spatial databases. In this paper, we study how the Voronoi diagram can be used on uncertain...
Reynold Cheng, Xike Xie, Man Lung Yiu, Jinchuan Ch...
This paper proposes a wearable annotation overlay system which can correctly annotate dynamic users of wearable computers. To provide users with the newest annotation information, ...