: In a decentralised system the problems of fault tolerance, and in particular error recovery, vary greatly depending on the design assumptions. For example, in a distributed datab...
Infomaster is an information integration system that provides integrated access tomultiple distributed heterogeneous information sources on the Internet, thus giving the illusion ...
Michael R. Genesereth, Arthur M. Keller, Oliver M....
The recent enormous increase in the use of networked information access and on-line databases has led to more databases being available in languages other than English. The Center...
—A major research subject in image databases is to support efficient and effective access to images based on their visual content. In color image databases, this requires to sup...
Alberto Del Bimbo, Mauro Mugnaini, Pietro Pala, F....
Data outsourcing is an emerging paradigm that allows users and companies to give their (potentially sensitive) data to external servers that then become responsible for their stor...
Pierangela Samarati, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimerc...