With the use of data warehousing and online analytical processing (OLAP) for decision support applications new security issues arise. The goal of this paper is to introduce an OLA...
With the emergence of the Internet, collaborative computing has become more feasible than ever. Organizations can share valuable information among each other. However, certain user...
In this paper, we introduce self-tuning histograms. Although similar in structure to traditional histograms, these histograms infer data distributions not by examining the data or...
Today’s object-relational DBMSs (ORDBMSs) are designed to support novel application domains by providing an extensible architecture, supplemented by domain-specific database ex...
To facilitate the rapid development and open system interoperability of autonomous agents we need to carefully specify and effectively implement various classes of agent behaviors...
Keith Decker, Anandeep Pannu, Katia P. Sycara, Mik...