Data provenance is essential in applications such as scientific computing, curated databases, and data warehouses. Several systems have been developed that provide provenance fun...
The proliferation of the World Wide Web has brought information retrieval (IR) techniques to the forefront of search technology. To the average computer user, “searching” now ...
Answering queries over an incomplete database w.r.t. a set of constraints is an important computational task with applications in fields as diverse as information integration and ...
In a database system, disclosure of confidential private data may occur if users can put together the answers of past queries. Traditional access control mechanisms cannot guard a...
We present a new approach to the grid technology that is based on federated databases and updatable views. Views are used in two ways: (1) as wrappers of local servers that adopt l...
Hanna Kozankiewicz, Krzysztof Stencel, Kazimierz S...