XML-relational systems with well defined XML and relational schemas are widely used in industry. In the presence of rapidly changing requirements both schemas of such a model need...
In order to provide a general access control methodology for parts of XML documents, we propose combining rolebased access control as found in the Role Graph Model, with a methodo...
An offline recognition system for Arabic handwritten words is presented. The recognition system is based on a semi-continuous 1-dimensional HMM. From each binary word image norma...
This paper proposes a family of replication protocols based on group communication in order to address some of the concerns expressed by database designers regarding existing repl...
A variety of heterogenous data sources is available in the field of molecular biology. Our focus lies on the biological sequence data, i. e. data maintained in collections like EM...