A query independent feature, relating perhaps to document content, linkage or usage, can be transformed into a static, per-document relevance weight for use in ranking. The challe...
Nick Craswell, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza...
Aspect-oriented programming has become an increasingly important means of expressing cross-cutting program abstractions. Despite this, aspects lack support for computeraided veri...
Shriram Krishnamurthi, Kathi Fisler, Michael Green...
We introduce an auditing framework for determining whether a database system is adhering to its data disclosure policies. Users formulate audit expressions to specify the (sensiti...
Rakesh Agrawal, Roberto J. Bayardo Jr., Christos F...
Access control mechanisms are widely used with the intent of enforcing confidentiality and other policies, but few formal connections have been made between information flow and...
In the absence of location errors, geographic routing - using a combination of greedy forwarding and face routing - has been shown to work correctly and efficiently. The effects o...