With increased awareness comes unprecedented expectations. We live in a digital, cloud
era wherein the underlying information architectures are expected to be elastic, secure …

Blockchain networks have made inroads in the supply chain domains due to their
transparency, security and immutable logs. For cloud providers, a typical supply chain …

Stateful applications, which retain information about user sessions or operations, are pivotal
to industries like e-commerce, finance, and healthcare, where personalized and consistent …

Like many organizations, critical infrastructures and essential services are adopting cloud
computing. The many benefits are however clouded with security concerns. These types of …

This issue starts with the Database Principles column presenting an article by ten Cate and
colleagues on algorithms for solving the fitting problem for conjunctive queries. The fitting …

Better information management is the key to a more intelligent health and social system. To
this direction, many challenges must be first overcome, enabling seamless, effective and …