
Given a set $P$ of $n$ uncertain points on the real line, each represented by its one-dimensional probability density function, we consider the problem of building data structures on $P$ to answer range queries of the following three types for any query interval $I$: (1) top-$1$ query: find the point in $P$ that lies in $I$ with the highest probability, (2) top-$k$ query: given any integer $k\leq n$ as part of the query, return the $k$ points in $P$ that lie in $I$ with the highest probabilities, and (3) threshold query: given any threshold $τ$ as part of the query, return all points of $P$ that lie in $I$ with probabilities at least $τ$. We present data structures for these range queries with linear or nearly linear space and efficient query time.
26 pages. A preliminary version of this paper appeared in ISAAC 2014. In this full version, we also present solutions to the most general case of the problem (i.e., the histogram bounded case), which were left as open problems in the preliminary version
Computational Geometry (cs.CG), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Data structures, Databases (cs.DB), algorithms, uncertain data, top-\(k\) queries, threshold queries, data structures, range queries, Computer Science - Databases, Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms, Computer Science - Computational Geometry, Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
Computational Geometry (cs.CG), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Data structures, Databases (cs.DB), algorithms, uncertain data, top-\(k\) queries, threshold queries, data structures, range queries, Computer Science - Databases, Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms, Computer Science - Computational Geometry, Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
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