Although skip lists were introduced as an alternative to balanced binary search trees (BSTs), we show that the skip list can be interpreted as a type of randomly-balanced BST whos...
XML query processing is one of the most active areas of database research. Although the main focus of past research has been the processing of structural XML queries, there are gro...
The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) promotes XML and related standards, including XML Schema, XQuery, and XPath. This paper describes a formalization XML Schema. A formal semantic...
We consider a discrete-time tree network of polling servers where all packets are routed to the same node (called node 0), from which they leave the network. All packets have unit...
Many emerging web and Internet applications are based on a group communications model. Thus, securing group communications is an important Internet design issue. The key graph app...
Xiaozhou (Steve) Li, Yang Richard Yang, Mohamed G....