Secure multiparty computation allows parties to jointly compute a function of their private inputs without revealing anything but the output. Theoretical results [2] provide a gen...
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
In today's distributed computing environments, users are makingincreasing demands on the systems, networks, and applications they use. Users are coming to expect performance,...
Michael Katchabaw, Stephen L. Howard, Andrew D. Ma...
Combining Grid and P2P technologies can be exploited to provide high-level data sharing in large-scale distributed environments. However, this combination must deal with two hard p...
Exceptionally large amounts of both distributed data and computational resources are becoming available through the Grid. This will enable efficient exchange and processing of very...