Abstract. Hippocratic Databases have been proposed as a mechanism to guarantee the respect of privacy principles in data management. We argue that three major principles are missin...
“W3QL: A Query Language for the WWW”, published in 1995, presented a language with several distinctive features. Employing existing indexes as access paths, it allowed the sel...
OLAP queries are typically heavy-weight and ad-hoc thus requiring high storage capacity and processing power. In this paper, we address this problem using a database cluster which...
Alexandre A. B. Lima, Marta Mattoso, Patrick Valdu...
Interest on using mobile autonomous agents has been growing, recently, due to their capacity to cooperate for diverse purposes, from rescue to demining and security. However, such ...
In a database system, authorization-based access-control is generally the first line of defense, preventing unauthorized accesses to secret or sensitive data. However, this mechan...
Claudio Bettini, Xiaoyang Sean Wang, Sushil Jajodi...