Temporal reasoning and temporal query languages present di cult research problems of theoretical interest and practical importance. One problem is the chasm between point-based te...
We present a single-database private information retrieval (PIR) scheme with communication complexity O(k+d), where k ≥ log n is a security parameter that depends on the database...
— Optimal location (OL) queries are a type of spatial queries particularly useful for the strategic planning of resources. Given a set of existing facilities and a set of clients...
We present a practical and efficient approach to incorporating privacy policy enforcement into an existing application and database environment, and we explore some of the semanti...
Kristen LeFevre, Rakesh Agrawal, Vuk Ercegovac, Ra...
This paper concerns metaphor resource creation. It provides an account of methods used, problems discovered, and insights gained at the Hamburg Metaphor Database project, intended ...