Access control is the problem of regulating access to secret information based on certain context information. In traditional applications, context information is known exactly, p...
In the near future, commodity hardware is expected to incorporate both flash and magnetic disks. In this paper we study how the storage layer of a database system can benefit from...
Sorting hierarchical data in external memory is necessary for a wide variety of applications including archiving scientific data and dealing with large XML datasets. The topic of ...
Enterprises may use a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to provide a streamlined interface to their business processes. To scale up the system, each tier in a composite service ...
This paper studies, for the first time, the management of type information for an important class of semi-structured data: nested DAGs (Directed Acyclic Graphs) that describe exec...