Recent research identifies a growing privacy problem that exists within Online Social Networks (OSNs). Several studies have shown how easily strangers can extract personal data a...
Relational databases are widely used today as a mechanism for providing access to structured data. They, however, are not suitable for typical information finding tasks of end use...
—Emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites strongly differ from usual OLTP applications. First, the transactions are encapsulated in an AP...
With the trend towards increasing number of processor cores in future chip architectures, scalable directory-based protocols for maintaining cache coherence will be needed. Howeve...
The concept of location has become very popular in many applications on the Web, in particular for those which aim at connecting the real world with resources on the Web. However,...