Abstract: A key idea of architecture is the description of components and their connections. This information can be extended to define the horizontal and vertical distribution of...
The full integration of information retrieval (IR) features into a database management system (DBMS) has long been recognized as both a significant goal and a challenging undertak...
Samuel DeFazio, Amjad M. Daoud, Lisa Ann Smith, Ja...
In the context of relational as well as deductive databases, correct and efficient integrity checking is a crucial issue, as, without any guarantee of data consistency, the answers...
A hitherto unquestioned assumption made by all methods for integrity checking has been that the database satisfies its constraints before each update. This consistency assumption ...
We introduce a new cryptographic tool: multiset hash functions. Unlike standard hash functions which take strings as input, multiset hash functions operate on multisets (or sets). ...
Dwaine E. Clarke, Srinivas Devadas, Marten van Dij...