A robust, distortion minimizing technique for watermarking relational databases using once-for-all usability constraints

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2694-2707

  Kamran, M ^a,b   Suhail, Sabah ^c   Farooq, Muddassar ^d  

^a Department of Computer Science   (Pakistan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^c Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center nexGIN RC   (Pakistan)

^d INSTITUTE OF SPACE TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Data quality; Data usability constraints; Database watermarking; Distortion free; Ownership protection; Right protection; Robust watermarking

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; DATA USABILITY; DATABASE WATERMARKING; DISTORTION-FREE; OWNERSHIP PROTECTION; RIGHT PROTECTION; ROBUST WATERMARKING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; WATERMARKING;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84887963611     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2012.227     Document Type: Article

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