We propose a protocol that can be used between an RFID tag and a reader to exchange a secret without performing any expensive computation. Similarly to the famous blocker tag sugge...
Abstract. We present a simple query language for XML, which supports hierarchical, Boolean-connected query patterns. The interpretation of a query is founded on cost-based query tr...
A top-N selection query against a relation is to find the N tuples that satisfy the query condition the best but not necessarily completely. In this paper, we propose a new method ...
"Sparse" data, in which relations have many attributes that are null for most tuples, presents a challenge for relational database management systems. If one uses the no...
Jennifer L. Beckmann, Alan Halverson, Rajasekar Kr...
In this paper, we focus on an aspect of distributed XQuery processing that involves data exchanges between processor elements. We first address problems of distributed XML query p...
Makoto Yui, Jun Miyazaki, Shunsuke Uemura, Hirokaz...