Abstract. Information systems are vulnerable to accidental or malicious attacks. Security models for commercial computer systems exist, but information systems security is often ig...
As the popularity of XML keeps growing rapidly, XML compliant structured document management becomes an interesting and compelling research area. Query optimization for structured...
As the size of scientific and commercial datasets grows, it becomes imperative that an expressive metadata framework to be developed to facilitate access to the semantics of the d...
The Lecture notes covers database architecture, design, administration, and implementation. Evaluation and use of database-management systems for computers, with emphasis on microc...
With the rise of XML, the database community has been challenged by semi-structured data processing. Since the data type behind XML is the tree, state-of-the-art RDBMSs have learn...