A top-N selection query against a relation is to find the N tuples that satisfy the query condition the best but not necessarily completely. In this paper, we propose a new method ...
—Database security has become a vital issue in modern Web applications. Critical business data in databases is an evident target for attack. Therefore, ensuring the confidentiali...
Hasan Kadhem, Toshiyuki Amagasa, Hiroyuki Kitagawa
Recent advances in low-power sensing devices coupled with the widespread availability of wireless ad-hoc networks have fueled the development of sensor networks. These are typical...
Amir Soheili, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos
Sensor networks play a central role in applications that monitor variables in geographic areas such as the traffic volume on roads or the temperature in the environment. A key fea...
The complexity, cost, and down-time currently created by the database schema evolution process is the source of incessant problems in the life of information systems and a major s...