Abstract. Motivated by research on how topology may be a helpful foundation for building information modeling (BIM), a relational database version of the notions of chain complex a...
We study the problem of auditing databases which support statistical sum queries to protect the security of sensitive information; we focus on the special case in which the sensit...
Jon M. Kleinberg, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Prabh...
Malicious users can exploit the correlation among data to infer sensitive information from a series of seemingly innocuous data accesses. Thus, we develop an inference violation d...
Twig pattern matching (TPM) is the core operation of XML query processing. Existing approaches rely on either efficient data structures or novel labeling/indexing schemes to reduce...
In this paper, we describe a framework for an object-oriented modeling of meta information and its use for the integration of heterogeneous databases with the goal of their intero...
Daniel A. Keim, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Andreas Mieths...