Abstract. Due to the few computing resource planning options currently available in Grid computing, capacity planning, an old discipline for analyzing resource purchases, is simple...
The term “changes in structure,” originating from work in econometrics, refers to structural modifications invoked by actions on a causal model. In this paper we formalize the...
Augmenting an existing network with additional links to achieve higher robustness and survivability plays an important role in network design. We consider the problem of augmenting...
In e-commerce, the protection of user privacy from a server was not considered feasible until the private information retrieval (PIR) problem was stated recently. A PIR protocol a...
Video data is usually voluminous and it is desirable that one be able to get a quick idea of the content before actually watching a video or downloading it from the web. In this pa...