In spite of the many decades of progress in database research, surprisingly scientists in the life sciences community still struggle with inefficient and awkward tools for queryin...
All existing proposals for querying XML (e.g., XQuery) rely on a pattern-specification language that allows (1) path navigation and branching through the label structure of the XM...
Access control is the problem of regulating access to secret information based on certain context information. In traditional applications, context information is known exactly, p...
Abstract Existing solutions to the automated physical design problem in database systems attempt to minimize execution costs of input workloads for a given storage constraint. In t...
Abstract. Of particular concern in requirements engineering is the selection of requirements to implement in the next release of a system. To that end, there has been recent work o...
Neil A. Ernst, John Mylopoulos, Alexander Borgida,...