In relational database systems a combination of privileges and views is employed to limit a user’s access and to hide non-public data. The data privacy problem is to decide wheth...
For speed and convenience, applications routinely cache XML data locally, and access it through standard parser (SAX) or tree (DOM) interfaces. When the source of this data is a r...
For several reasons a database may not satisfy a given set of integrity constraints (ICs), but most likely most of the information in it is still consistent with those ICs; and cou...
As the use of derived information has grown in recent years, the importance of provenance has been recognized, and there has been a great deal of effort devoted to developing tec...
Background: Most existing transcriptional databases like Comprehensive Systems-Biology Database (CSB.DB) and Arabidopsis Microarray Database and Analysis Toolbox (GENEVESTIGATOR) ...