Security defense tools like firewalls and antivirus softwares are not sufficient to defend against dynamic threats to database systems. Successful attacks could not only seriously ...
Impact assessment (IA) is a key method for the legislator to evaluate policies, norms or regulations currently under development. Experts use IA to gather and analyze input from m...
We study functional and multivalued dependencies over SQL tables with NOT NULL constraints. Under a no-information interpretation of null values we develop tools for reasoning. We...
We present a novel framework based on hidden Markov models (HMMs) for matching feature point sets, which capture the shapes of object contours of interest. Point matching algorith...
ne the design and detail the implementation of a language extension for abstracting types and for decoupling subtyping and inheritance in C++. This extension gives the user more of...