Abstract. The CORBA standard now incorporates support for reliability through two distinct mechanisms — replication (using the Fault Tolerant CORBA standard) and transactions (us...
: The most valuable information assets of an organization are often stored in databases and it is pertinent for such organizations to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of t...
Web-based applications with a large variety of users suffer from the inability to satisfy heterogeneous needs. A remedy for the negative effects of the traditional "one-size-...
Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, Stefano Gu...
A multidimensional database can be seen as a collection of multidimensional cubes, from which information is usually extracted by aggregation; aggregated data can be calculated ei...
Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols allow users to learn data items stored at a server which is not fully trusted, without disclosing to the server the particular data e...
Ning Shang, Gabriel Ghinita, Yongbin Zhou, Elisa B...