We define a simple collection of operations for creating and manipulating record structures, where records are intended as finite associations of values to labels. A second-order ...
Abstract. The automatic detection of shared content in written documents –which includes text reuse and its unacknowledged commitment, plagiarism– has become an important probl...
The Internet and file sharing technology (such as P2P network) significantly alleviate the content distribution cost. However, better digital content distribution also means that ...
We investigate asymptotically optimal keyword auctions, that is, auctions which maximize revenue as the number of bidders grows. We do so under two alternative behavioral assumpti...
The early 1980s saw the development of some rather sophisticated distributed systems. These were not merely networked file systems: rather, using remote procedure calls, hierarchi...