Database caching supports declarative query processing close to the application. Using a full-fledged DBMS as cache manager, it enables the evaluation of specific project-select-...
Many applications refer to moving objects or phenomena and require spatio-temporal modelling and specific analysis. Unlike conventional data where attributes are simple values (nu...
In this paper we present a novel approach for estimating the selectivity of XML twig queries. Such a technique is useful for approximate query answering as well as for determining...
In data integration systems, queries posed to a mediator need to be translated into a sequence of queries to the underlying data sources. In a heterogeneous environment, with sour...
Ramana Yerneni, Chen Li, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Hector...
Malicious users can exploit the correlation among data to infer sensitive information from a series of seemingly innocuous data accesses. Thus, we develop an inference violation d...