The design of software toolkits embodies a fundamental tension. On the one hand, it aims to reduce programmer effort by providing prefabricated, reusable software modules encapsula...
Scientific bibliographies in online databases provide a rich source of information for scientists in support of their research. In this paper, we propose a new method to predict po...
A recursive algorithm for solving Boolean relations is presented. It provides several features: wide exploration of solutions, parametrizable cost function and efficiency. The exp...
Drawing a distinction between relational and nonrelational sources, we explore the antecedents to selecting an information source. The antecedents to use have been categorized int...
We explore how Private Information Retrieval (PIR) can help users keep their sensitive information from being leaked in an SQL query. We show how to retrieve data from a relational...