Social network analysis (SNA) has become a mature scientific field over the last 50 years and is now an area with massive commercial appeal and renewed research interest. In thi...
An ever-growing number of users participate in online communities such as Flickr, del.icio.us , and YouTube , making friends and sharing content. Users come to these sites to fin...
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Michael Benedikt, Philip Bohanno...
Work on early tiny database systems, like TinyDB [17] and Cougar [23] has shown that a declarative approach can provide a powerful and easy to use interface for collecting data fr...
Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Samuel...
The importance of maintaining provenance has been widely recognized, particularly with respect to highly-manipulated data. However, there are few deployed databases that provide p...
Secure chips, e.g. present in smart cards, TPM, USB dongles are now ubiquitous in applications with strong security requirements. Secure chips host personal data that must be care...