PIVOT and UNPIVOT, two operators on tabular data that exchange rows and columns, enable data transformations useful in data modeling, data analysis, and data presentation. They ca...
In this paper we present a mechanism for translating information in heterogeneous digital library environments. We model information as a set of conjunctive constraints that are s...
This paper presentsa version model which handlesdatabaseschemachangesandwhich takesevolution into account. Its originality is in allowing the development of partial schema version...
We revisit the problem of constructing efficient secure two-party protocols for the problems of setintersection and set-union, focusing on the model of malicious parties. Our main...
We propose a method to automatically transform synchronous data flow diagrams into synchronous block diagrams. The idea is to use triggers, a mechanism that allows a block to be f...