This is the first book to provide an in-depth coverage of all the developments, issues, and challenges in secure databases and applications. It provides directions for data and application security, including securing emerging applications such as bioinformatics, stream information processing and peer-to-peer computing. Divided into eight sections, each section focusing on some key concept of secure databases and applications. Database and Applications Security provides a comprehensive overview and focuses on all aspects of the technology including secure relational databases, inference problems, secure object databases, secure distributed databases and emerging applications. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.