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Journal papers

• E. Bertino, C. Bettini, E. Ferrari, and P. Samarati, An Access Control Model Supporting Periodicity Constraints and Temporal Reasoning. ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 1998. To appear.

• C. Bettini, X. Wang, S. Jajodia, A General Framework for Time Granularity and its Application to Temporal Reasoning. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 22 (1,2): 29-58, 1998, Baltzer Science Publishers, Amsterdam. (Revised version of isse-tr-96-10.)

• C. Bettini, X. Wang, J. Lin, S. Jajodia, Discovering Frequent Event Patterns With Multiple Granularities in Time Sequences. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 10 (2), 1998.

• E. Bertino, C. Bettini, E. Ferrari, P. Samarati, Decentralized Administration for a Temporal Access Control Model, Information Systems, 22(4):223-248, 1997. (Revised version of TR 176-96, DSI Technical Report, University of Milano.)

• C. Bettini, X. Wang, S. Jajodia, Temporal Semantic Assumptions and Their Use in Databases. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 10(2), 1998. (Revised version of isse-tr-95-105, ISSE Dept. Technical Report, George Mason University.)

• C. Bettini. Time Dependent Concepts: Representation and Reasoning Using Temporal Description Logics. Data & Knowledge Engineering, North-Holland, 22(1):1-38, 1997.

• X. Wang, C. Bettini, A. Brodsky, S. Jajodia, Logical Design for Temporal Databases with Multiple Granularities, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 22(2):115-170, 1997.

• E. Bertino, C. Bettini, E. Ferrari, P. Samarati, A temporal access control mechanism for database systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 8(1):67-80, 1996.

Invited papers

• C. Bettini, X. Wang, S. Jajodia. Mining Temporal Relationships with Multiple Granularities in Time Sequences, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 21(1):32-38, 1998.

• C. Bettini, C.E. Dyreson, W.S. Evans, R.T. Snodgrass, X.S. Wang. A glossary of time granularity concepts. In book: Temporal Databases: Research and Practice, O. Etzion, S. Jajodia, S. Sripada (Eds.), LNCS State-of-the-art Survey 1399, pp. 406-413, Springer, 1998.

Refereed contributions in collections/books

• C. Bettini, X. Wang, S. Jajodia. An Architecture to Inter-Operability in Temporal Databases. In book: Temporal Databases: Research and Practice, O. Etzion, S. Jajodia, S. Sripada (Eds.), LNCS State-of-the-art Survey 1399, pp. 36-55, Springer, 1998.

Conference papers

• C. Bettini, X. Wang, S. Jajodia. Satisfiability of Quantitative Temporal Constraints with Multiple Granularities. In Proc. 3rd Intern. Conf. on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Springer-Verlag LNCS 1330, pp. 435-449, 1997.

• E. Bertino, C. Bettini, E. Ferrari, and P.Samarati. Supporting periodic authorizations and temporal reasoning in database access control. In Proc. of International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Bombay, India, September 1996.

• E. Bertino, C. Bettini, E. Ferrari, A. Motta, and P.Samarati. On using materialization strategies for a temporal authorization model. In Proc. of International Workshop on Materialized Views: Techniques and Applications (In Co-operation with ACM Sigmod), Montreal, Canada, 1996.

• C. Bettini, X. Wang, S. Jajodia, A General Framework and Reasoning Models for Time Granularity. In Proc. of 3rd International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME96), Key West, FL, May 1996. IEEE Computer Society Press.

• E. Bertino, C. Bettini, E. Ferrari, P. Samarati, A Decentralized Temporal Authorization Model, In Proc. of 12th International Information Security Conference (SEC '96), Greece, 1996. Chapman & Hall.

• C. Bettini, X. Wang, and S. Jajodia. Testing complex temporal relationships involving multiple granularities and its application to data mining. In Proc. of the ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium in Principles of Database Systems (PODS), Montreal, Canada, 1996.

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