The problem of privacy-preserving data mining has been studied extensively in recent years because of the increased amount of personal information which is available to corporation...
Databases of text and text-annotated data constitute a significant fraction of the information available in electronic form. Searching and browsing are the typical ways that users ...
Similarity search has been widely used in many applications such as information retrieval, image data analysis, and time-series matching. Specifically, a similarity query retrieves...
It is widely realized that the integration of database and information retrieval techniques will provide users with a wide range of high quality services. In this paper, we study ...
Bolin Ding, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Shan Wang, Lu Qin, Xiao...
The high quality, structured data from Web structured sources is invaluable for many applications. Hidden Web databases are not directly crawlable by Web search engines and are on...