Crash recovery in database systems aims to provide an acceptable level of protection from failure at a given engineering cost. A large number of recovery mechanisms are known, and...
S. Scheuerl, Richard C. H. Connor, Ronald Morrison...
Given a set of N multi-dimensional points, we study the computation of -quantiles according to a ranking function F, which is provided by the user at runtime. Specifically, F compu...
We study the problem of privacy-preserving access to a database. Particularly, we consider the problem of privacy-preserving keyword search (KS), where records in the database are ...
Michael J. Freedman, Yuval Ishai, Benny Pinkas, Om...
We characterize the dynamic data management problem for location based services(LBS) in mobile environments and devise a cost model for servicing both location independent and loc...
: The “Grid” is an emerging infrastructure for coordinating access across autonomous organizations to distributed, heterogeneous computation and data resources. Data grids are ...