Abstract. To ensure the consistency of database subsystems involved in communication systems (e.g., telephone systems), appropriate scheduled maintenance policies are necessary. Au...
Stefano Porcarelli, Felicita Di Giandomenico, Amin...
: Pervasive wireless systems have significantly improved end-users' quality of life. As manufacturing costs decrease, communications bandwidth increases, and contextual inform...
—Survivability modeling and evaluation have gained increasing importance. Most existing models assume that the distributions for transitions between states are exponential. Howev...
Data integration in medical applications is a crucial and sensitive task. It turns out that there are rigid factors like heterogeneous, distributed data sources, security, and comp...
Abstract. Hippocratic Databases have been proposed as a mechanism to guarantee the respect of privacy principles in data management. We argue that three major principles are missin...