The challenge for user authentication in a global file system is allowing people to grant access to specific users and groups in remote administrative domains, without assuming ...
Michael Kaminsky, George Savvides, David Mazi&egra...
At a fundamental level, the key challenge in data integration is to reconcile the semantics of disparate data sets, each expressed with a different database structure. I argue th...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based item-level tracking holds the promise of revolutionizing supply-chain, retail store, and asset management applications. However, the hi...
Applications and services that access Web data are becoming increasingly more useful and wide-spread. Current main-stream Web query languages such as XQuery, XSLT, or SPARQL, howe...
Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...