Efficient search for the Top-k probable nearest neighbors in uncertain databases

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 326-339

  Beskales, George ^a   Soliman, Mohamed A ^a   Ilyas, Ihab F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MOBILE PHONES; SEMANTICS;

EVALUATION ALGORITHM; MARGINAL PROBABILITY; MULTIMEDIA FEATURES; REAL-LIFE APPLICATIONS; SENSOR DATA MANAGEMENT; THRESHOLD QUERIES; UNCERTAIN DATABASE; UNCERTAINTY MODELING;

NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH;

EID: 84859170480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508097     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14778/1453856.1453895     Document Type: Article

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