The strong dynamics of peer-to-peer networks, coupled with the diversity of peer vocabularies, makes query processing in peer database systems a very challenging task. In this pape...
Background: A survey of microarray databases reveals that most of the repository contents and data models are heterogeneous (i.e., data obtained from different chip manufacturers)...
Todd H. Stokes, J. T. Torrance, Henry Li, May D. W...
The vision of the Semantic Web is to make Web content machine-readable. To describe data, the Resource Description Framework has been extended with a schema-level and description ...
Dynamic data distributions offer a number of performance benefits, but require more sophisticated compiler support and incur run-time overhead. We investigate attainable benefits ...
When outsourcing data to an untrusted database server, the data should be encrypted. When using thin clients or low-bandwidth networks it is best to perform most of the work at the...