is the level of abstraction: a logical model ignores the constraints that the underlying database technology imposes and presents a simplified view. Sometimes physical database des...
This paper describes QUEM, a method for assessing the skill level of a knowledge-based system based on the quality of the solutions it produces. QUEM is demonstrated by using it t...
A data model is a plan for building a database and is comparable to an architect's building plans. There are two major methodologies used to create a data model: the EntityRe...
Joanne M. Atlee, Robert B. France, Geri Georg, Ana...
Service-based approaches (such as Web Services and the Open Grid Services Architecture) have gained considerable attention recently for supporting distributed application developme...
M. Nedim Alpdemir, Arijit Mukherjee, Norman W. Pat...
We initiate the cryptographic study of order-preserving symmetric encryption (OPE), a primitive suggested in the database community by Agrawal et al. (SIGMOD '04) for allowin...
Alexandra Boldyreva, Nathan Chenette, Younho Lee, ...