Background: In computer science, database systems are based on the relational model founded by Edgar Codd in 1970. On the other hand, in the area of biology the word 'databas...
Although traditional databases and data warehouses have been exploited widely to manage persistent data, a large number of applications from sensor network need functional support...
The advent of XML as a universal exchange format, and of Web services as a basis for distributed computing, has fostered the apparition of a new class of documents: dynamic XML do...
Query processing in traditional information management systems has moved from an exact match model to more flexible paradigms allowing cooperative retrieval by aggregating the dat...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...
In order to protect individuals' privacy, the technique of kanonymization has been proposed to de-associate sensitive attributes from the corresponding identifiers. In this p...