Consider a content distribution network consisting of a set of sources, repositories and clients where the sources and the repositories cooperate with each other for efficient di...
Shetal Shah, Krithi Ramamritham, Chinya V. Ravisha...
We consider a general approach to the hoary problem of (im)proving circuit lower bounds. We define notions of hardness condensing and hardness extraction, in analogy to the corres...
We study the problem of e cient maintenance of materialized views that may contain duplicates. This problem is particularly important when queries against such views involve aggre...
Sources of data uncertainty and imprecision are numerous. A way to handle this uncertainty is to associate probabilistic annotations to data. Many such probabilistic database mode...
Storyboards are commonly known as rows of pictures, which exemplarily sketch scenes in performing arts. The rows specify the sequence of scenes. The scenes themselves are illustra...