Many data-management applications require integrating data from a variety of sources, where different sources may refer to the same real-world entity in different ways and some ma...
According to a famous study [10] of the 1990 census data, 87% of the US population can be uniquely identified by gender, ZIP code and full date of birth. This short paper revisit...
Abstract. This paper presents a method to generate unique and nevertheless highly random pseudonyms in a distributed environment. More precisely, each user can now generate his pse...
This paper presents a flexible way in which a deisgn model extracted from Java programs can remain unified with the source code. Each entity declaration and reference in the Java ...
In this paper, we propose a revisitation of the topic of unique decodability and of some fundamental theorems of lossless coding. It is widely believed that, for any discrete sourc...