During the development of Beyond-Sniff, a distributed multi-user development platform, we were confronted with various, apparently unrelated problems: data, control, and user inte...
The Zebrafish Model Organism Database (ZFIN) provides a Web resource of zebrafish genomic, genetic, developmental, and phenotypic data. Four different ontologies are currently used...
We study the problem of auditing a batch of SQL queries: Given a forbidden view of a database that should have been kept confidential, a batch of queries that were posed over this ...
Releasing person-specific data in its most specific state poses a threat to individual privacy. This paper presents a practical and efficient algorithm for determining a generaliz...
Abstract The protection of customer privacy is a fundamental issue in today's corporate marketing strategies. Not surprisingly, many research efforts have proposed new privacy...