Abstract. Recent research showed the benefits of adopting formal ontologies as a means for accessing heterogeneous data sources. The use of an ontology not only provides a uniform...
Given two sets A and B of m non-intersecting line segments in the plane, we show how to compute in O(m log m) time a data structure that uses O(m) space and allows to answer the fo...
Otfried Cheong, Hazel Everett, Hyo-Sil Kim, Sylvai...
Abstract. We address the problem of answering queries using expressive symmetric inter-schema constraints which allow to establish mappings between several heterogeneous informatio...
Many DBMS products in the market provide built in encryption support to deal with the security concerns of the organizations. This solution is quite effective in preventing data ...
Mustafa Canim, Murat Kantarcioglu, Bijit Hore, Sha...
Location-centric storage (LCS) is envisioned as a promising scheme for robust and user-friendly ondemand data storage in networking environments such as the roadway sensor networks...