The concept of stigmergy provides a simple framework for interaction and coordination in multi-agent systems. However, determining the global system behavior that will arise from ...
We propose an approach for the selective enforcement of access control restrictions in, possibly distributed, large data collections based on two basic concepts: i) flexible autho...
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Sara Foresti, Su...
—Database security has become a vital issue in modern Web applications. Critical business data in databases is an evident target for attack. Therefore, ensuring the confidentiali...
Hasan Kadhem, Toshiyuki Amagasa, Hiroyuki Kitagawa
Abstract. Good estimates of join result sizes are critical for query optimization in relational database management systems. We address the problem of incrementally obtaining accur...
A number of execution strategies for parallel evaluation of multi-join queries have been proposed in the literature; their performance was evaluated by simulation. In this paper w...
Annita N. Wilschut, Jan Flokstra, Peter M. G. Aper...