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Compared to the last decades, we have recently seen more and more governmental applications which are provided via the Internet directly to the citizens. Due to the long history o...
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The increasing number of software-based attacks has attracted substantial efforts to prevent applications from malicious interference. For example, Trusted Computing (TC) technolo...
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XML query languages use directional path expressions to locate data in an XML data collection. They are tightly coupled to the structure of a data collection, and can fail when ev...
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