Words and phrases acquire meaning from the way they are used in society, from their relative semantics to other words and phrases. For computers the equivalent of `society' is...
This paper presents a denotational model of inheritance. The model is based on an intuitive motivation of inheritance as a mechanism for deriving modified versions of recursive d...
Set similarity join has played an important role in many real-world applications such as data cleaning, near duplication detection, data integration, and so on. In these applicati...
Russell and Wang [22] recently introduced an elegant, information-theoretic notion called entropic security of encryption: they required that the cipher text leak no predicate of ...
We introduce a formal semantics based calculus of trust that explicitly represents trust and quantifies the risk associated with trust in public key infrastructure (PKI) and iden...