To meet users’ growing needs for accessing pre-existing heterogeneous databases, a multidatabase system (MDBS) integrating multiple databases has attracted many researchers recen...
— We consider the situation where users rank items from a given set, and each user ranks only a (small) subset of all items. We assume that users can be classified into C classe...
— With the advent of service sensitive applications such as remote controlled experiments, time constrained massive data transfers, and video-conferencing, it has become apparent...
Chin Guok, David W. Robertson, Mary R. Thompson, J...
Applications need to become more concurrent to take advantage of the increased computational power provided by chip level multiprocessing. Programmers have traditionally managed t...
Bratin Saha, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Richard L. Hu...
The current landscape for digital rights management (DRM) consists of various ad hoc technologies and platforms that largely focus on copy protection. The fragmented nature of the...