Abstract. Class extensions provide a fine-grained mechanism to define incremental modifications to class-based systems when standard subclassing mechanisms are inappropriate. To...
The information security community has long debated the exact definition of the term `security'. Even if we focus on the more modest notion of confidentiality the precise def...
— Current database systems are tailored to efficiently evaluate Boolean expressions which are typically used as selection conditions to restrict the result set. We propose to ad...
The MPEG-7 standard provides description mechanisms and taxonomy management for multimedia documents. There are several approaches to design a multimedia database system using MPE...
In an on-line statistical database, the query system should leave unanswered queries asking for sums that could lead to the disclosure of confidential data. To check that, every su...