Decision support applications involve complex queries on very large databases. Since response times should be small, query optimization is critical. Users typically view the data ...
Venky Harinarayan, Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey D. Ull...
The problem of polysemy involves having terms, such as “truck”, that refer to multiple concepts in different contexts; and conversely, having the same concept referred to with...
This paper is about the Oblivious Transfer in the distributed model proposed by M. Naor and B. Pinkas. In this setting a Sender has n secrets and a Receiver is interested in one o...
Carlo Blundo, Paolo D'Arco, Alfredo De Santis, Dou...
Given that the global DNS system, especially at the higher root and top-levels, experiences significant query loads, we seek to answer the following questions: (1) How does the ch...
Abstract: This paper discusses three rectilinear (that is, axis-parallel) covering problems in d dimensions and their variants. The first problem is the Rectilinear Line Cover whe...
Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Apichat Heednacram, Fran...