This paper explores the complications encountered when attempting to create a secure pervasive computing environment. The model introduced in this paper is primarily conceptual. T...
: Nowadays, a central topic in database science is the need of an integrated access to large amounts of data provided by various information sources whose contents are strictly rel...
Abstract-- We present COLR-Tree, an abstraction layer designed to support efficient spatio-temporal queries on live data gathered from a large collection of sensors. We use COLR-Tr...
Government regulations are semi-structured text documents that are often voluminous, heavily cross-referenced between provisions and even ambiguous. Multiple sources of regulation...
Currently, only few XML data management systems support concurrent access to an XML document, and if they do, they typically apply variations of hierarchical locking to handle XML...