This note presents a new way of composing cryptographic primitives which makes some novel combinations possible. For example, one can do threshold decryption using standard block c...
We present an annotation management system for relational databases. In this system, every piece of data in a relation is assumed to have zero or more annotations associated with ...
Deepavali Bhagwat, Laura Chiticariu, Wang Chiew Ta...
A frequent type of query in spatial networks (e.g., road networks) is to find the K nearest neighbors (KNN) of a given query object. With these networks, the distances between ob...
Oracle XML DB integrates XML storage and querying using the Oracle relational and object relational framework. It has the capability to physically store XML documents by shredding...
—Today’s rich service offer in the World Wide Web increasingly requires the disclosure of personal user data. Service providers’ appetite for personal user data, however, is ...