Adapting to current context of usage is of fundamental importance for pervasive computing services. As the technology for acquiring contextual information is increasingly availabl...
Abstract. We propose an access control scheme for developing authorization rules for XML documents, allowing flexible data granularity and authorization propagation. To simplify t...
Retrieving information from heterogeneous data sources in a flexible manner and within a single (database) framework is still a challenge. In this paper we present several extensi...
The major relational database systems have been providing XML support for several years, predominantly by mapping XML to existing concepts such as LOBs or (object-)relational tabl...
Medical information systems and standards are increasingly based on principled models of at least three distinct sorts of information – patient data, concepts (terminology), and ...
Alan L. Rector, Peter D. Johnson, Samson W. Tu, Ch...