We tackle the problem of disambiguating entities on the Web. We propose a user-driven scheme where graphs of entities ? represented by globally identifiable declarative artifacts ...
Hermann de Meer, Karl Aberer, Michael Jost, Parisa...
As computer systems are essential components of many critical commercial services, the need for secure online transactions is now becoming evident. The demand for such application...
Feifei Li, Ke Yi, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George ...
User written transaction code is responsible for the "C" in ACID transactions, i.e., taking the database from one consistent state to the next. However, user transaction...
Recently, a technique called quotient cube was proposed as a summary structure for a data cube that preserves its semantics, with applications for online exploration and visualiza...
In environments where exact synchronization between source data objects and cached copies is not achievable due to bandwidth or other resource constraints, stale (out-of-date) cop...