Let S be a set of horizontal line segments, or bars, in the plane. We say that G is a bar visibility graph, and S its bar visibility representation, if there exists a one-to-one co...
Alice M. Dean, William Evans, Ellen Gethner, Joshu...
Proximity searching consists in retrieving from a database, objects that are close to a query. For this type of searching problem, the most general model is the metric space, where...
We study the shortest path problem in weighted polygonal subdivisions of the plane, with the additional constraint of an upper bound, k, on the number of links (segments) in the pa...
Ovidiu Daescu, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Simeon C. Nt...
Given two or more parties possessing large, confidential datasets, we consider the problem of securely computing the kth -ranked element of the union of the datasets, e.g. the med...
The first decades of the new millennium will witness an explosive growth in the number and diversity of networked devices and portals. We foresee high degrees of mobility, hetero...
Fabio Kon, Roy H. Campbell, M. Dennis Mickunas, Kl...