While guarded evaluation has proven an effective energy saving technique in arithmetic circuits, good methodologies do not exist for determining when and how to guard for maximal ...
We argue that designing a system that “guarantees” the privacy of its information may not be enough. One must also consider the price for providing that protection: For exampl...
: In an extensible database system, evaluation of a query plan is done in cooperation between a collection of operator implementation functions and a component of the DBMS that we ...
This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
As data stream management systems (DSMSs) become more and more popular, there is an increasing need to protect such systems from adversaries. In this paper we present an approach ...