Execution cost of batched data mining queries can be reduced by integrating their I/O steps. Due to memory limitations, not all data mining queries in a batch can be executed toget...
When a data warehouse is loaded at night and queried during the day, there is no requirement for concurrent update and querying. However there are a number of situations where con...
Some promising recent schemes for XML access control employ encryption for implementing security policies on published data, avoiding data duplication. In this paper we study one ...
We advocate the use of agents to model a system that allows us to integrate and protect information stored in both mobile and fixed devices, while trying to preserve a consistent a...
As a simple XML query language but with enough expressive power, XPath has become very popular. To expedite evaluation of XPath queries, we consider the problem of rewriting XPath...