We present a simple, yet powerful, approach for the specification and enforcement of authorizations regulating data release among data holders collaborating in a distributed comp...
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Su...
Index is an important element in databases, and the existence of index is unavoidable. When an index has been built on a particular attribute, database operations (e.g. selection,...
A common technique used to minimize I/O in data intensive applications is data declustering over parallel servers. This technique involves distributing data among several disks so...
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ali Saman Tosun, Guadalupe ...
The pre-computation of data cubes is critical to improving the response time of On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) systems and can be instrumental in accelerating data mining tas...
Ying Chen, Frank K. H. A. Dehne, Todd Eavis, Andre...
Scheduling query execution plans is an important component of query optimization in parallel database systems. The problem is particularly complex in a shared-nothing execution en...