Security is a very important issue in information processing, especially in open network environments like the Internet. The Common Criteria (CC) is the standard requirements cata...
Monika Vetterling, Guido Wimmel, Alexander K. Wi&s...
Many techniques have been proposed to scale web applications. However, the data interdependencies between the database queries and transactions issued by the applications limit th...
Generic database replication algorithms do not scale linearly in throughput as all update, deletion and insertion (UDI) queries must be applied to every database replica. The thro...
Current web search engines focus on searching only the most recent snapshot of the web. In some cases, however, it would be desirable to search over collections that include many ...
The asymmetry of activity in virtual communities is of great interest. While participation in the activities of virtual communities is crucial for a community's survival and ...