The quality of a local search engine, such as Google and Bing Maps, heavily relies on its geographic datasets. Typically, these datasets are obtained from multiple sources, e.g., ...
One of the critical steps in designing a secure biometric system is protecting the templates of the users that are stored either in a central database or on smart cards. If a biom...
Existing dynamic race detectors suffer from at least one of the following three limitations: (i) space overhead per memory location grows linearly with the number of parallel thre...
Current search mechanisms of DHT-based P2P systems can well handle a single keyword search problem. Other than single keyword search, multi-keyword search is quite popular and use...
Hanhua Chen, Hai Jin, Jiliang Wang, Lei Chen 0002,...
Failure detectors are fundamental building blocks in distributed systems. Multi-node failure detectors, where the detector is tasked with monitoring N other nodes, play a critical...