Based on loosely coupled services in an XML engine, we describe how to realize fine-grained lock protocols, which can guarantee transaction isolation for applications using differ...
The paper introduces a notion of support for realvalued functions. It is shown how to approximate supports of a large class of functions based on supports of so called polynomial ...
Power transformers' failures carry great costs to electric companies since they need resources to recover from them and to perform periodical maintenance. To avoid this probl...
This paper introduces a new logical formalism, intended for temporal conceptual modelling, as a natural combination of the well-known description logic DLR and point-based linear ...
Existing approaches for protecting sensitive information stored (outsourced) at external "honest-but-curious" servers are typically based on an overlying layer of encrypt...
Valentina Ciriani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercat...