Process-level virtualization is increasingly being used to enhance the security of software applications from reverse engineering and unauthorized modification (called software p...
A universal model of a database D and a set Σ of integrity constraints is a database that extends D, satisfies Σ, and is most general in the sense that it contains sound and co...
With the popularization of GPS-enabled devices there is an increasing interest for location-based queries. In this context, one interesting problem is processing top-k spatial key...
Requirements from new types of applications call for new database system solutions. Computational science applications performing distributed computations on Grid networks with req...
The MPEG-7 standard is emerging as both a general framework for content description and a collection of specific, agreed-upon content descriptors. We have developed a neural, self...