Privacy is an important issue in data publishing. Many organizations distribute non-aggregate personal data for research, and they must take steps to ensure that an adversary cann...
Bee-Chung Chen, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Kristen LeFevr...
Data services for the Grid have focussed so far primarily on virtualising access to distributed databases, and encapsulating file location. However, orchestration of services requ...
Andrew Woolf, Ray Cramer, Marta Gutierrez, Kerstin...
These last years, the evolution of nomadic terminals and mobile networks has yield to the development of the ubiquitous computing. In this context, actual query evaluation and opt...
Abstract. We are witnessing a dramatic increase in the use of datacentric distributed systems such as global grid infrastructures, sensor networks, network monitoring, and various ...
Approximate predicates can be used to reduce the number of comparisons made by expensive, complex predicates. For example, to check if a point is within a region (expensive predic...