The re-use of a model by someone else than the original developer is still an open challenge. This paper presents composition structures and interface descriptions for discreteeve...
Class algebra provides a natural framework for sharing of ISA hierarchies between users that may be unaware of each other's definitions. This permits data from relational dat...
In many applications, the underlying data (the web, an XML document, or a relational database) can be seen as a graph. These graphs may be enriched with weights, associated with t...
Authentication is increasingly relevant to data management. Data is being outsourced to untrusted servers and clients want to securely update and query their data. For example, in ...
We outline an efficient ACID-compliant mechanism for structural inserts and deletes in relational XML document storage that uses a region based pre/size/level encoding (equivalent...