In order to protect individuals' privacy, the technique of kanonymization has been proposed to de-associate sensitive attributes from the corresponding identifiers. In this p...
Abstract. Physical database design tools rely on a DBA-provided workload to pick an "optimal" set of indexes and materialized views. Such an approach fails to capture sce...
Scientific data in the life sciences is distributed over various independent multi-format databases and is constantly expanding. We discuss a scenario where a life science research...
The capability to easily find useful services (software applications, software components, scientific computations) becomes increasingly critical in several fields. Current approa...
Juan Carlos Corrales, Daniela Grigori, Mokrane Bou...
An active XML (AXML) document contains tags representing calls to Web services. Therefore, retrieving its contents consists in materializing its data elements by invoking the embe...