—Web 2.0 applications, including blogs, wikis and social networking sites, pose challenging privacy issues. Many users are unaware that search engines index personal information ...
Michael Hart, Claude Castille, Rob Johnson, Amanda...
Combining access control with weakly consistent replication presents a challenge if the resulting system is to support eventual consistency. If authorization policy can be tempora...
Ted Wobber, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry
An important direction in database research for non-standard applications (e.g. engineering or design applications) deals with adequate support for complex objects. Without doubt,...
We present SmallWorlds, a visual interactive graph-based interface that allows users to specify, refine and build item-preference profiles in a variety of domains. The interface f...
Brynjar Gretarsson, John O'Donovan, Svetlin Bostan...
We consider the task of reinforcement learning in an environment in which rare significant events occur independently of the actions selected by the controlling agent. If these ev...