In many business and consumer applications, queries have cardinality constraints. However, current database systems provide minimal support for cardinality assurance. Consequently...
Manasi Vartak, Venkatesh Raghavan, Elke A. Rundens...
Controlled Query Evaluation (CQE) defines a logical framework to protect confidential information in a database. By modeling a user's a priori knowledge appropriately, a CQE ...
The concepts of bipolar queries and queries with preferences are studied. Various interpretations of the former, recently defined by Dubois and Prade, are discussed. The latter w...
Software tools used to administer databases are vendor specific, proprietary, and require extensive prior database knowledge on the part of the database professional. We present d...
Complex and data-intensive database queries mandate parallel processing strategies to achieve sufficiently short response times. In praxis, parallel database processing is mostly b...