Sampling is a popular method of data collection when it is impossible or too costly to reach the entire population. For example, television show ratings in the United States are g...
The proliferation of database-driven web sites (or web-databases) has brought upon a plethora of applications where both Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Data (QoD) are of ...
Proactively providing services to mobile individuals is essential for emerging ubiquitous applications. The major challenge in providing users with proactive services lies in cont...
Stealth malware programs that silently infect enterprise and consumer machines are becoming a major threat to the future of the Internet [XZ04]. Resource hiding is a powerful stea...
A Data Warehouse (DW) is a data repository that integrates data from multiple sources and organizes the data according to a set of data structures called dimensions. Each dimension...