Fingerprint matching is still a challenging problem for reliable person authentication because of the complex distortions involved in two impressions of the same finger. In this p...
Access to distributed databases containing tuples collected about mobile physical objects requires information about the objects’ trajectories. Existing access control models ca...
Data mining can extract important knowledge from large data collections - but sometimes these collections are split among various parties. Privacy concerns may prevent the parties...
Data provenance is essential in applications such as scientific computing, curated databases, and data warehouses. Several systems have been developed that provide provenance fun...
Recent innovations have resulted in a plethora of social applications on the Web, such as blogs, social networks, and community photo and video sharing applications. Such applicat...