In this paper, we reveal a common deficiency of the current retrieval models: the component of term frequency (TF) normalization by document length is not lower-bounded properly;...
We study the multicast capacity of a random wireless network consisting of ordinary wireless nodes and base stations, known as a hybrid network. Assume that n ordinary wireless no...
This paper is concerned with a programming language construct for typed name binding that enforces -equivalence. It proves a new result about what operations on names can co-exist...
This work is at the intersection of two lines of research. One line, initiated by Dinur and Nissim, investigates the price, in accuracy, of protecting privacy in a statistical dat...
Finding icebergs ? items whose frequency of occurrence is above a certain threshold ? is an important problem with a wide range of applications. Most of the existing work focuses ...