The rapid advances in computer and communication technologies, and their merger, is leading to a global information market place. It will consist of federations of very large numb...
The maindi culty in enforcing globalserializabilityin a multidatabase environment lies in resolving indirect (transitive) con icts between multidatabase transactions. Indirect con...
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Marek Rusinkiewicz, Amit...
In this paper we investigate unsupervised population of a biomedical ontology via information extraction from biomedical literature. Relationships in text seldom connect simple ent...
Cartic Ramakrishnan, Pablo N. Mendes, Shaojun Wang...
A recent study characterizing failures in computer networks shows that transient single element (node/link) failures are the dominant failures in large communication networks like...
In 2001, Rivest et al. rstly introduced the concept of ring signatures. A ring signature is a simplied group signature without any manager. It protects the anonymity of a signer....