Abstract. Provenance is information recording the source, derivation, or history of some information. Provenance tracking has been studied in a variety of settings; however, althou...
Spatial indexes, such as the PMR quadtree, are important in spatial databases for efficient execution of queries involving spatial constraints, especially when the queries involve...
High assurance security is di cult to achieve in distributed computer systems and databases because of their complexity, non-determinism and inherent heterogeneity. The practical ...
With new standards like RDF or OWL paving the way for the much anticipated Semantic Web, a new breed of very large scale semantic systems is about to appear. Traditional semantic r...
Karl Aberer, Tiziana Catarci, Philippe Cudré...
Information and communication infrastructures underwent a rapid and extreme decentralization process over the past decade: From a world of statically and partially connected centra...