We study the specification of access control policy in large-scale distributed systems. We present Cassandra, a language and system for expressing policy, and the results of a sub...
Distributed heterogeneous search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers d...
Empirical performance evaluation of parallel systems and applications can generate significant amounts of performance data and analysis results from multiple experiments as perfo...
Kevin A. Huck, Allen D. Malony, Robert Bell, Alan ...
Ranking is a fundamental operation in data analysis and decision support, and plays an even more crucial role if the dataset being explored exhibits uncertainty. This has led to m...
Database queries, in particular, event-driven continuous queries, are useful for many pervasive computing applications, such as video surveillance. In order to enable these applic...