Just like the previous workshop at VLDB 1999 in Edinburgh, the purpose of this workshop is to promote telecom data management as one of the core research areas in database research and to establish a strong connection between the telecom and database research communities. As I wrote in the preface of those proceedings, data management in telecommuni- tions is an interesting area of research given the fact that both service management and service provisioning are very data intensive, and pose extreme requirements on data management technology. Given the feedback on the previous workshop we...

Althoughcryptographyandsecuritytechniqueshavebeenaroundfor quitesome time, emerging technologies such as ubiquitous computing and ambient intel- gence that exploit increasingly interconnected networks, mobility and pers- alization put new requirements on security with respect to data management. As data is accessible anytime anywhere, according to these new concepts, it - comes much easier to get unauthorized data access. Furthermore, it becomes simpler to collect, store, and search personal information and endanger people s privacy. Therefore, researchin the area of secure data management is...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management held in Seattle, WA, USA in September 2, 2011 as a satellite workshop of the VLDB 2011 Conference . The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on privacy protection and quantification, security in cloud and sensor networks and secure data managment technologies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management held in Istanbul, Turkey, in August 27, 2012. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on privacy protection, access control, secure storage on the cloud, and trust on the Web.