Personalization is a powerful mechanism that helps users to cope with the abundance of information on the Web. Database query personalization achieves this by dynamically construc...
Tree based indexing structures like -trees, ·-trees, Bitmap indexes and Ê-trees have become essential for getting good performance when accessing vast datasets. However, most dat...
Yannis Kotidis, Yannis Sismanis, Nick Roussopoulos
Separation of duties (SoD) is a key security requirement for many business and information systems. Role Based Access Controls (RBAC) is a relatively new paradigm for protecting i...
David W. Chadwick, Wensheng Xu, Sassa Otenko, Roma...
This paper presents HomeViews, a peer-to-peer middleware system for building personal data management applications. HomeViews provides abstractions and services for data organizat...
Roxana Geambasu, Magdalena Balazinska, Steven D. G...
Virtual classes are class-valued attributes of objects. Like virtual methods, virtual classes are defined in an object's class and may be redefined within subclasses. They re...