An optimization query asks for one or more data objects that maximize or minimize some function over the data set. We propose a general class of queries, model-based optimization ...
Abstract. With the widespread use of e-business coupled with the public's awareness of data privacy issues and recent database security related legislations, incorporating sec...
Balakrishna R. Iyer, Sharad Mehrotra, Einar Myklet...
In large projects, software developers struggle with two sources of complexity ? the complexity of the code itself, and the complexity of the process of producing it. Both of thes...
XML transformations are very sensitive to types: XML types describe the tags and attributes of XML elements as well as the number, kind, and order of their sub-elements. Therefore,...
Practical applications that employ entropy coding for large alphabets often partition the alphabet set into two or more layers and encode each symbol by using some suitable prefix...
Dan Chen, Yi-Jen Chiang, Nasir D. Memon, Xiaolin W...