Development of distributed systems is a difficult task. Declarative programming techniques hold a promising potential for effectively supporting programmer in this challenge. Whil...
Nuno P. Lopes, Juan A. Navarro, Andrey Rybalchenko...
In this study, we are interested to see the impact of self-discipline on students' knowledge and learning. Self-discipline can influence both learning rate as well as knowledg...
Yue Gong, Dovan Rai, Joseph Beck, Neil T. Hefferna...
Sovereign information sharing allows autonomous entities to compute queries across their databases in such a way that nothing apart from the result is revealed. We describe an imp...
Rakesh Agrawal, Dmitri Asonov, Ramakrishnan Srikan...
Many applications in information retrieval, natural language processing, data mining, and related fields require a ranking of instances with respect to a specified criteria as op...
Abstract. The development of scalable parallel database systems requires the design of efficient algorithms for the join operation which is the most frequent and expensive operatio...