In a database system, disclosure of confidential private data may occur if users can put together the answers of past queries. Traditional access control mechanisms cannot guard a...
The prevalent use of XML highlights the need for a generic, flexible access-control mechanism for XML documents that supports efficient and secure query access, without revealing ...
A k-Range Nearest Neighbor (or kRNN for short) query in road networks finds the k nearest neighbors of every point on the road segments within a given query region based on the net...
Jie Bao 0003, Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Wei...
We present a complete XPath cost-based optimization and execution framework and demonstrate its effectiveness and efficiency for a variety of queries and datasets. The framework i...
Haris Georgiadis, Minas Charalambides, Vasilis Vas...
This paper proposes a ranking method to exploit statistical correlations among pairs of attribute values in relational databases. For a given query, the correlations of the query ...