The data sets for many of today's computer applications are too large to t within the computer's internal memory and must instead be stored on external storage devices su...
In order to make database systems interoperate with systems beyond traditional application areas a new paradigm called \exporting database functionality" as a radical departur...
In this paper we present the design and implementation of a distributed index architecture to facilitate metadata discovery on large networks. Many current information discovery s...
Discovery of association rules from large databases of item sets is an important data mining problem. Association rules are usually stored in relational databases for future use i...
This paper discusses the development of a methodology for reasoning about properties of security policies. We view a security policy as a special case of regulation which specifi...