In this paper we address the problem of minimizing the response time of a multi-way join query using pipelined (inter-operator) parallelism, in a parallel or a distributed environ...
User privacy in location-based services has attracted great interest in the research community. We introduce a novel framework based on a decentralized architecture for privacy pr...
The enhanced pay-per-view (EPPV) model for providing continuous-media-on-demand(CMOD) services associates with each continuous media clip a display frequency that dependson the cl...
The goal of a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack is to completely tie up certain resources so that legitimate users are not able to access a service. It has long been an ...
Voluntary Computing systems or Desktop Grids (DGs) enable sharing of commodity computing resources across the globe and have gained tremendous popularity among scientific research...