Abstract. With the increased need of data sharing among multiple organizations, such as government organizations, financial corporations, medical hospitals and academic institution...
Hypothetical queries are queries embedding hypotheses about the database. The embedded hypothesis in a hypothetical query indicates, so to say, a state of the database intended for...
This paper discusses the development of a methodology for reasoning about properties of security policies. We view a security policy as a special case of regulation which specifi...
Previous work reports about SXSI, a fast XPath engine which executes tree automata over compressed XML indexes. Here, reasons are investigated why SXSI is so fast. It is shown tha...
Continuous queries are used to monitor changes to time varying data and to provide results useful for online decision making. Typically a user desires to obtain the value of some ...