We propose an approach for the selective enforcement of access control restrictions in, possibly distributed, large data collections based on two basic concepts: i) flexible autho...
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Su...
Self-managing solutions have recently attracted a lot of interest from the database community. The need for self-* properties is more evident in distributed applications comprising...
In this paper we consider the problem of answering queries using views, which is important for data integration, query optimization, and data warehouses. We consider its simplest ...
Database evolution is the process of updating the schema of a database or data warehouse (schema evolution) and evolving the data to the updated schema (data evolution). Database ...
Ziyang Liu, Sivaramakrishnan Natarajan, Bin He, Hu...
Much work has been done on characterizing the workload of a database system. Previous studies focused on providing different types of statistical summaries, and modeling the run-ti...