The role-based access control (RBAC) model has proven to be cost effective to reduce the complexity and costs of access permission management. To maximize the advantages offered...
Alessandro Colantonio, Roberto Di Pietro, Alberto ...
There is an increasing need to integrate spatial index structures into commercial database management systems. In geographic information systems (GIS), huge amounts of information ...
This paper introduces a new approach to database disk buffering, called the LRU–K method. The basic idea of LRU–K is to keep track of the times of the last K references to pop...
Elizabeth J. O'Neil, Patrick E. O'Neil, Gerhard We...
Emerging distributed computing architectures, such as grid and cloud computing, depend on the high integrity execution of each system in the computation. While integrity measuremen...
Joshua Schiffman, Thomas Moyer, Christopher Shal, ...
Norm-governed virtual organizations define, govern and facilitate coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in societies of agents. With an explicit account of norms, openn...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Martin J. Kollingbaum,...