In hierarchical distributed systems, shared data access can be controlled by assigning user groups single cryptographic keys that allow high level users derive low level keys, but...
This paper presents Jade, a high-level parallel programming language for managing coarse-grain concurrency. Jade simplifies programming by providing the programmer with the abstra...
This paper analyzes and discusses the ways tasks are described and perceived in a remote Think Aloud (TA) usability tests session. The paper includes reports from a study and the p...
Database queries are often exploratory and users often find their queries return too many answers, many of them irrelevant. Existing work either categorizes or ranks the results t...
Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we ...