In distributed environments, statements from a number of principals, besides the central trusted party, may influence the derivations of authorization decisions. However, existin...
According to the logical model of Information Retrieval (IR), the task of IR can be described as the extraction, from a given document base, of those documents d that, given a que...
Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Stracc...
The paper investigates the question of whether a partially closed database has complete information to answer a query. In practice an enterprise often maintains master data Dm, a ...
XML has emerged as the leading language for representing and exchanging data not only on the Web, but also in general in the enterprise. XQuery is emerging as the standard query l...
Georges Gardarin, Antoine Mensch, Tuyet-Tram Dang-...
For around 10 years, the academic research in database has attempted to define a commonly agreed logical modeling for the multidimensional and hierarchical nature of data manipulat...
Arnaud Giacometti, Dominique Laurent, Patrick Marc...