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ICDE
2009
IEEE
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Semantics of Ranking Queries for Probabilistic Data and Expected Ranks
Abstract-- When dealing with massive quantities of data, topk queries are a powerful technique for returning only the k most relevant tuples for inspection, based on a scoring func...
Graham Cormode, Feifei Li, Ke Yi
CSFW
1995
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Composing and decomposing systems under security properties
We investigate the formal relationship between separability of processes and the types of non-interference properties they enjoy. Though intuitively appealing, separability – th...
A. W. Roscoe, L. Wulf
UC
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Computing Domains of Attraction for Planar Dynamics
In this note we investigate the problem of computing the domain of attraction of a flow on R2 for a given attractor. We consider an operator that takes two inputs, the description...
Daniel S. Graça, Ning Zhong
SPAA
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Locally scalable randomized consensus for synchronous crash failures
We consider bit communication complexity of binary consensus in synchronous message passing systems with processes prone to crashes. A distributed algorithm is locally scalable wh...
Bogdan S. Chlebus, Dariusz R. Kowalski
HASKELL
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A compositional theory for STM Haskell
We address the problem of reasoning about Haskell programs that use Software Transactional Memory (STM). As a motivating example, we consider Haskell code for a concurrent non-det...
Johannes Borgström, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, An...