In many important applications, a collection of mutually distrustful parties must perform private computation over multisets. Each party’s input to the function is his private i...
Data freshness has been identified as one of the most important data quality attributes in information systems. This importance increases particularly in the context of distribute...
Abstract. Due to the complexity and uncertainties, the engineering process requires dynamic collaborations among the heterogeneous systems and human interactions. In this paper, we...
Jian Cao, Jie Wang, Shen-sheng Zhang, Minglu Li, K...
Over the last few years several process-based web service composition languages have emerged, such as BPEL4WS and BPML. These languages define the composition on the basis of a pr...
RAID5 disk arrays provide high performance and high reliability for reasonable cost. However RAID5 suffers a performance penalty during block updates. In order to overcome this pr...