Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...
: The “Grid” is an emerging infrastructure for coordinating access across autonomous organizations to distributed, heterogeneous computation and data resources. Data grids are ...
XML stream querying problem involves evaluating a given, potentially large, set of query expressions on a continuous stream of XML messages. Since the messages arrive continuously...
Privacy, preservation and performance (“3 P’s”) are central design objectives for distributed data management systems. However, these objectives tend to compete with one ano...
Securing data is becoming a crucial need for most internet-based applications. Whereas the problem of data confidentiality has been widely investigated, the problem of how to ens...
Yunhua Koglin, Giovanni Mella, Elisa Bertino, Elen...