In the last few years, XML became a de-facto standard for the exchange of structured and semi-structured data. The database research community took this development into account b...
Firewalls are crucial elements in network security, and have been widely deployed in most businesses and institutions for securing private networks. The function of a firewall is t...
Alex X. Liu, Mohamed G. Gouda, Huibo H. Ma, Anne H...
Managing uncertain data using probabilistic frameworks has attracted much interest lately in the database literature, and a central computational challenge is probabilistic infere...
Research on query optimization has focused almost exclusively on reducing query execution time, while important qualities such as consistency and predictability have largely been ...
Path traversals have been recognized as one of the strengths of object-oriented query processing as object retrieval can be carried out through pointer navigation. Apart from path...