Applications typically have some local understanding of a database schema, a virtual database that may differ significantly from the actual schema of the data where it is stored...
James F. Terwilliger, Lois M. L. Delcambre, David ...
When storing data in heterogeneous databases, one of the top-down design issues concerns the usage of multiple query languages. A common language enables querying of database schem...
KEYnet is a database where gene and protein names are hierarchically structured. Particular care has been devoted to the search and organisation of synonyms. The structuring is ba...
We study two classes of view update problems in relational databases. We are given a source database S, a monotone query Q, and the view Q(S) generated by the query. The first pro...
Farsite is a secure, scalable file system that logically functions as a centralized file server but is physically distributed among a set of untrusted computers. Farsite provides ...
Atul Adya, William J. Bolosky, Miguel Castro, Gera...