The growing number of information security breaches in electronic and computing systems calls for new design paradigms that consider security as a primary design objective. This i...
We discuss the design of a class of agents that we call adaptive web site agents. The goal of such an agent is to help a user find information at a particular web site, adapting i...
The World Wide Web can be considered as a large distributed information system that provides access to shared data objects. As one of the most popular applications currently runni...
Query processing in database systems may be improved by applying parallel processing techniques. One reason for improving query response time is to support the increased number que...
Unlike conventional data or text, Web pages typically contain a large amount of information that is not part of the main contents of the pages, e.g., banner ads, navigation bars, ...