It is challenging to process transactions in a timely fashion using fresh data, e.g., current stock prices, since database workloads may considerably vary due to dynamic data/reso...
Information modeling is concerned with the construction of computer-based symbol structures which capture the meaning of information and organize it in ways that make it understan...
We consider the problem of admission control in resource sharing systems, such as web servers and transaction processing systems, when the job size distribution has high variabili...
— It has for long been recognized that in multi-cell wide-band code division multiple access (WCDMA) networks the admission of a new session into the system can have undesirable ...
Some promising recent schemes for XML access control employ encryption for implementing security policies on published data, avoiding data duplication. In this paper we study one ...