The problem of disjoint sets, also known as union-find, consists in maintaining a partition of a finite set within a data structure. This structure provides two operations: a fu...
Authentication is increasingly relevant to data management. Data is being outsourced to untrusted servers and clients want to securely update and query their data. For example, in ...
The assessment of the reliability of clusters discovered in bio-molecular data is a central issue in several bioinformatics problems. Several methods based on the concept of stabil...
All existing proposals for querying XML (e.g., XQuery) rely on a pattern-specification language that allows (1) path navigation and branching through the label structure of the XM...
In this work we look at combining emerging technologies in programming languages with traditional query processing techniques to provide support for efficient execution of declarat...