In relational database systems a combination of privileges and views is employed to limit a user’s access and to hide non-public data. The data privacy problem is to decide wheth...
Existing data-integration systems based on the mediation architecture employ a variety of mechanisms to describe the query-processing capabilities ofsources. However, these system...
Indexes are the key technology underpinning efficient text search. A range of algorithms have been developed for fast query evaluation and for index creation, but update algorithm...
The composition of services that are indexed in a large-scale service directory often involves many complex queries issued by the service composition algorithm to the directory. Th...
Information Retrieval systems are limited by the linguistic variation of language. The use of Natural Language Processing techniques to manage this problem has been studied for a ...