Controlling access to resources is one of the most important protection goals for web-based services in practice. In general, access control requires identification of subjects t...
To date, research has focussed on privacy from a wide perspective, enabling organisations to implement various technologies that contribute to privacy protection. However, in such...
We describe ShreX, a freely-available system for shredding, loading and querying XML documents in relational databases. ShreX supports all mapping strategies proposed in the liter...
The quadratic form distance (QFD) has been utilized as an effective similarity function in multimedia retrieval, in particular, when a histogram representation of objects is used...
Abstract. In object-oriented or object-relational databases such as multimedia databases or most XML databases, access patterns are not static, i.e., applications do not always acc...