There has been considerable past work on efficiently computing top k objects by aggregating information from multiple ranked lists of these objects. An important instance of this...
Ravi Kumar, Kunal Punera, Torsten Suel, Sergei Vas...
We consider the energy consumed in radio transmission of a set of sensors forming a data gathering wireless network. Our objective is to enhance the lifetime of such networks by e...
Samar Agnihotri, Pavan Nuggehalli, H. S. Jamadagni
Whereas traditional databases manage only deterministic information, many applications that use databases involve uncertain data. This paper presents a Probabilistic Tree Data Bas...
Abstract. In knowledge bases, the open world assumption and the ability to express variables may lead to an answer redundancy problem. This problem occurs when the returned answers...
We study the specification of access control policy in large-scale distributed systems. Our work on real-world policies has shown that standard policy idioms such as role hierarc...