The intent of peer data management systems (PDMS) is to share as much data as possible. However, in many applications leveraging sensitive data, users demand adequate mechanisms to...
A set of presentations covering the book, which includes the following topics ER Model and Conceptual Design, The Relational Model and SQL DDL, Relational Algebra, SQL, Database Ap...
A universal model of a database D and a set Σ of integrity constraints is a database that extends D, satisfies Σ, and is most general in the sense that it contains sound and co...
In recent years, the KDD process has been advocated to be an iterative and interactive process. It is seldom the case that a user is able to answer immediately with a single query...
Arianna Gallo, Roberto Esposito, Rosa Meo, Marco B...
The Distributed Information Search COmponent (Disco) is a prototype heterogeneous distributed database that accesses underlying data sources. The Disco prototype currently focuses...