Emerging electronic commerce services that use public-key cryptography on a mass-market scale require sophisticated mechanisms for managing trust. For example, any service that rec...
In recent years, corporate governance has become a more and more important concern in investment decision-making. As one of the most important factors in evaluating corporate gove...
Schema mappings are high-level specifications that describe the relationship between two database schemas. They are an important tool in several areas of database research, notab...
With the recent advances in wireless networks, embedded systems and GPS technology, databases that manage the location of moving objects have received increased interest. In this ...
George Kollios, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Dimitrios G...
This paper proposes APART (A Posteriori Active ReplicaTion), a novel active replication protocol specifically tailored for multi-tier data acquisition systems. Unlike existing ac...
Paolo Romano, Diego Rughetti, Francesco Quaglia, B...