Publisher's Synopsis
Database security is of vital importance in the computer science and information engineering world. This text explores current research and development in the area, with particular emphasis on policy modelling, object-oriented systems, distributed databases, concurrency control, DBMS design issues, performance analysis, integrity, panel-privacy issues and the design of healthcare information systems, inference, and transaction processing. Papers are sourced from experts across each specialised sector. The publication should be of interest to researchers, designers, developers and students concerned with database security.