Pervasive information systems give an overview of what digital environments should look like in the future. From a data-centric point of view, traditional databases have to be use...
Disaster prevention and management is a complicated task that often involves a tremendous volume of heterogeneous data from various resources. With its dynamic and distributed nat...
To ensure that a trust negotiation succeeds whenever possible, authorization policy compliance checkers must be able to find all minimal sets of their owners' credentials tha...
The database community has produced extensive research on the concurrency control problem in the context of traditional databases. However, this traditional model is not suitable ...
—Traditional hierarchical namespaces are not sufficient for representing and managing the rich semantics of today’s storage systems. In this paper, we discuss the principles o...
Zhichen Xu, Magnus Karlsson, Chunqiang Tang, Chris...