The ability to locate useful on-line Web Services is becoming critical for today’s service-oriented business applications. A number of efforts have been put to enhance the servic...
Ranking a set of retrieved documents according to their relevance to a given query has become a popular problem at the intersection of web search, machine learning, and informatio...
Existing approaches for protecting sensitive information stored (outsourced) at external "honest-but-curious" servers are typically based on an overlying layer of encrypt...
Valentina Ciriani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercat...
B-tree and index into two layers of abstraction. In addition, this paper provides algorithms for (i) concurrency control and recovery including locking of individual keys and of co...
Commercial database systems expose query hints to address situations in which the optimizer chooses a poor plan for a given query. However, current query hints are not flexible eno...
Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri, Ravishankar Rama...