—MapReduce has become increasingly popular as a powerful parallel data processing model. To deploy MapReduce as a data processing service over open systems such as service orient...
The protection of privacy is an increasing concern in our networked society because of the growing amount of personal information that is being collected by a number of commercial...
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Marco Cremonini, Sabrina...
The Windows Vista operating system implements an interesting model of multi-level integrity. We observe that in this model, trusted code must participate in any information-flow a...
Avik Chaudhuri, Prasad Naldurg, Sriram K. Rajamani
Metadata descriptions of database contents are required to build and use systems that access and deliver data in response to user requests. When numerous heterogeneous databases a...
Eduard H. Hovy, Andrew Philpot, Judith Klavans, Ul...
Since 1995, much work has been done creating protocols for private information retrieval (PIR). Many variants of the basic PIR model have been proposed, including such modificati...