The field of database systems, especially database design, web-based data access, metadata, and the meaningful communication of data between disparate sources. He is also interested in object-oriented design methodologies, in particular how applications interace with database systems and other middleware.
"View and Content-Based Security" (with A. Rosenthal).聽 Invited article, in Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security (second edition), Springer-Verlag, 2011, pp. 249-253. []
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"SimpleDB: A Simple Java-Based Multiuser System for Teaching Database Internals". 聽Proc. ACM SIGCSE Conference on Computer Science Education, March 2007. []
"Abstracting and Refining Authorization in SQL" (with A. Rosenthal).聽 International Workshop on Secure Data Management in a Connected World, September 2004.聽 Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3178, Springer Verlag, pp. 148-162. []
"Enabling Collaborative Administration and Safety Fences: Factored Privileges in SQL Databases" (with A. Rosenthal).聽 IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 27:1, March 2004, pp. 42-47. 聽[]