Effective querying and managing of temporal databases represent an unanswered challenge to the modern research community. In this paper, we introduce a temporal preprocessor that ...
The concepts of bipolar queries and queries with preferences are studied. Various interpretations of the former, recently defined by Dubois and Prade, are discussed. The latter w...
Abstract In this article, we present a comprehensive approach for privacy preserving access control based on the notion of purpose. In our model, purpose information associated wit...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
Background: Researchers who use MEDLINE for text mining, information extraction, or natural language processing may benefit from having a copy of MEDLINE that they can manage loca...
Diane E. Oliver, Gaurav Bhalotia, Ariel S. Schwart...