The skyline operator was first proposed in 2001 for retrieving interesting tuples from a dataset. Since then, 100+ skyline-related papers have been published; however, we discove...
Design and development scalability, in any engineering, requires information hiding and a specific composition mechanism in which composite items are made-up of other items. This ...
Task-PIOA is a modeling framework for distributed systems with both probabilistic and nondeterministic behaviors. It is suitable for cryptographic applications because its task-bas...
Ran Canetti, Ling Cheung, Dilsun Kirli Kaynar, Nan...
The file-bundle caching problem arises frequently in scientific applications where jobs process several files concurrently. Consider a host system in a data-grid that maintains...
Traditional data-oriented programming languages such as dataflow s and stream languages provide a natural abstraction for parallel programming. In these languages, a developer fo...