—In cloud computing, clients usually outsource their data to the cloud storage servers to reduce the management costs. While those data may contain sensitive personal information...
I argue against trying to solve the problem of clustering objects into disk pages. Instead, I propose that objects be fetched in groups that may be specific to an application or ...
Emerging applications in electronic commerce often involve very low-cost transactions, which execute in the context of ongoing, extended clientserver relationships. For example, c...
Yossi Matias, Alain J. Mayer, Abraham Silberschatz
In a Stackelberg pricing game a leader aims to set prices on a subset of a given collection of items, such as to maximize her revenue from a follower purchasing a feasible subset o...
Patrick Briest, Martin Hoefer, Luciano Gualà...
In this paper we use doubly stochastic matrices to establish a link between Birkhoff polytopes and heat kernels on graphs. Based on this analysis we construct a multi-dimensional ...
Francisco Escolano, Edwin R. Hancock, Miguel Angel...