Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...
Changing preferences is very common in real life. The expressive power of the operations of preference change introduced so far in the literature is limited to adding new informat...
On the Semantic Web, there has been increasing demand for a ruleslike expressivity that goes beyond OWL-DL. Efforts of combining rules languages and description logics usually pro...
Smartcards are the most secure portable computing device today. They have been used successfully in applications involving money, proprietary and personal data (such as banking, h...
Philippe Pucheral, Luc Bouganim, Patrick Valduriez...
Hash tables are fundamental data structures that optimally answer membership queries. Suppose a client stores n elements in a hash table that is outsourced at a remote server so t...