Abstract. This paper presents XPeer, a data sharing system for massively distributed XML data. XPeer allows users to publish and query heterogeneous information without any signi...
Giovanni Conforti, Giorgio Ghelli, Paolo Manghi, C...
We consider an environment where a subscription system continuously evaluates pattern-based requests over unbounded sequential data. We propose an extension of the traditional pat...
Abstract. Topological relationships between spatial objects in the twodimensional space have been investigated for a long time in a number of disciplines like artificial intellige...
Anonymous electronic payment systems are regarded as essential for the protection of the privacy of consumers participating in electronic transactions. In this paper, we present a...
Unity is an architecture for integrating relational databases that performs three processes: metadata capture, semantic integration, and query formulation and execution. The found...