In a database system, disclosure of confidential private data may occur if users can put together the answers of past queries. Traditional access control mechanisms cannot guard a...
Many emerging application domains require database systems to support efficient access over highly multidimensional datasets. The current state-of-the-art technique to indexing hi...
We study the problem of maintaining recursively-de ned views, such as the transitive closure of a relation, in traditional relational languages that do not have recursion mechanis...
Fragmentation leads to unpredictable and degraded application performance. While these problems have been studied in detail for desktop filesystem workloads, this study examines n...
Most previous research on privacy-preserving data publishing, based on the k-anonymity model, has followed the simplistic approach of homogeneously giving the same generalized val...
Wai Kit Wong, Nikos Mamoulis, David Wai-Lok Cheung