Synonyms
Indexing imprecise daa; Indexing probabilistic data
Definition
The indexing of an uncertain database refers to the data structure constructed on top of imprecise data, with the goal of supporting efficient and scalable execution of probabilistic queries on them.
Historical Background
Uncertainty is prevalent in many important and emerging applications, such as spatial databases, sensor networks, and biological applications. For example, in the Global-Positioning System (GPS), the location collected from the GPS-enabled devices (e.g., PDAs) often has measurement and sampling error [20, 17]. The location data transmitted to the system may further encounter some network delay. Hence, the data collected in these applications are often imprecise, inaccurate, and stale. Similar problems also occur in sensor networks and RFID monitoring systems. Consider a habitat monitoring system used in scientific applications, where data such as temperature, humidity, and wind speed are acquired...
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Prabhakar, S., Cheng, R. (2018). Indexing Uncertain Data. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_80740
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