SQL tuning--the attempt to improve a poorly-performing execution plan produced by the database query optimizer-is a critical aspect of database performance tuning. Ironically, as ...
Geographic information technologies (GIT) have the potential to integrate information among multiple organizations. In fact, some of the most impressive advantages of using geo-sp...
We present a secure network service for sovereign information sharing whose only trusted component is an off-theshelf secure coprocessor. The participating data providers send enc...
Rakesh Agrawal, Dmitri Asonov, Murat Kantarcioglu,...
: As the geographic information system (GIS) community grows, more and more people needs to share geographic information. As modern GIS data is stored in geographic databases their...
We study the problem of querying relational data embedded in XML. Relational data can be represented by various tree structures in XML. However, current XML query methods, such as...