Traditionally work on multimedia structuring has been centered on the creation of indices and their use for searching. Although searching is important there are many cases where t...
Does the advent of flash devices constitute a radical change for secondary storage? How should database systems adapt to this new form of secondary storage? Before we can answer t...
Eight years ago, functional dependencies, a concept from the theory of relational databases, were proposed as a mechanism for avoiding common problems with multiple parameter type...
Protecting confidentiality of data has become increasingly important for computing systems. Information-flow techniques have been developed over the years to achieve that purpos...
This paper describes a new tool for use in the process of brainstorming workshops on HCI called "Open-ended objects". Open-ended objects are open-ended interactive exper...