Knowledge scouts are software agents that autonomously synthesize knowledge of interest to a given user (target knowledge) by applying inductive database operators to a local or di...
Abstract. The conventional use of databases is commonly restricted to the retrieval of factual data in the form of tuples or records. However most databases also contain metadata i...
We address privacy-preserving classification problem in a distributed system. Randomization has been the approach proposed to preserve privacy in such scenario. However, this appr...
In many business scenarios, record matching is performed across different data sources with the aim of identifying common information shared among these sources. However such need...
As the XML model gets more popular, new needs arise to specify access control within XML model. Various XML access control models and enforcement methods have been proposed recentl...