The paper investigates XML document speci cations with DTDs and integrity constraints, such as keysand foreign keys. We study the consistency problem of checking whether a given s...
A query against a database behind a site like Napster may search, e.g., for all users who have downloaded more jazz titles than pop music titles. In order to express such queries,...
In this paper we study the problem of mining all frequent queries in a given database table, a problem known to be intractable even for conjunctive queries. We restrict our attent...
So far there is no systematic attempt to construct Boolean functions with maximum annihilator immunity. In this paper we present a construction keeping in mind the basic theory of...
A certificate of authenticity (COA) is an inexpensive physical object that has a random unique structure with high cost of near-exact reproduction. An additional requirement is th...