The ability to store and query uncertain information is of great benefit to databases that infer values from a set of observations, including databases of moving objects, sensor r...
In applications of biometric databases the typical task is to identify individuals according to features which are not exactly known. Reasons for this inexactness are varying meas...
A top-k query combines different rankings of the same set of objects and returns the k objects with the highest combined score according to an aggregate function. We bring to ligh...
Nikos Mamoulis, Kit Hung Cheng, Man Lung Yiu, Davi...
In constrained data mining, users can specify constraints that can be used to prune the search space to avoid mining uninteresting knowledge. Since it is difficult to determine th...
Gao Cong, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan, Anthony K. ...
Broad web search engines as well as many more specialized search tools rely on web crawlers to acquire large collections of pages for indexing and analysis. Such a web crawler may...