Many museum and library archives are digitizing their large collections of handwritten historical manuscripts to enable public access to them. These collections are only available...
Most modern RDBMS depend on the query processing optimizer’s cost model to choose the best execution plan for a given query. Since the physical IO (PIO) is a costly operation to...
Abstract. The process industries (chemicals, food, oil, ...) are characterized by - continuous or batch -- processes of material transformation. The design of such processes, and t...
In 1998, Blaze, Bleumer, and Strauss suggested a cryptographic primitive termed proxy re-signature in which a proxy transforms a signature computed under Alice's secret key in...
Any automated decision support software must tailor its actions or recommendations to the preferences of different users. Thus it requires some representation of user preferences ...