Software development environments are examples of complex computer applications characterized by heterogeneity; they are composed of diverse information repositories, user interfa...
Abstract. A simple model for method-based authorization is defined and an algorithm is presented for testing in compile-time whether a given database schema violates authorization...
Queries in object-oriented datab;Lqcs are formulated against a class and retrieve instnnccls of the class sat,isfying a certain predicate on the att,riblltes of the class. The pre...
I/O is a major performance bottleneck in modern computer systems. Modern disks use the Zone-Bit-Recording (ZBR) technology to increase the capacity. A direct consequence of ZBR is...
: As multimedia contents are becoming widely used in ubiquitous computing environments among many application fields, e.g., education, entertainment, and live surveillance, the dem...