Protecting confidentiality of data has become increasingly important for computing systems. Information-flow techniques have been developed over the years to achieve that purpos...
A stochastic formulation of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) using an approach based on Bayesian categorical data models has been developed. However, in categorical data model...
Role-based access control is a standard mechanism in information systems. Based on the role a user has, certain information is kept from the user even if requested. For ontologies ...
Language can be viewed as a complex adaptive system which is continuously shaped and reshaped by the actions of its users as they try to solve communicative problems. To maintain c...
We describe a new method for performing a nonlinear form of Principal Component Analysis. By the use of integral operator kernel functions, we can e ciently compute principal comp...