Abstract In this article, we present a comprehensive approach for privacy preserving access control based on the notion of purpose. In our model, purpose information associated wit...
Logic and databases have gone a long way together since the advent of relational databases. Already the rst basic query languages for relational databases beside relational algebra...
Peer-to-peer (p2p) systems are attracting increasing attention as an efficient means of sharing data among large, diverse and dynamic sets of users. The widespread use of XML as a...
Consistency management is an important requirement in many complex applications, but current programming languages and database systems provide inadequate support for it. To addre...
Many dramatizations have depicted a fully automated home living environment, where actions and events are understood or even anticipated. While the realization of such environment...