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ICDE
2012
IEEE
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12 years 10 days ago
Recomputing Materialized Instances after Changes to Mappings and Data
—A major challenge faced by today’s information systems is that of evolution as data usage evolves or new data resources become available. Modern organizations sometimes exchan...
Todd J. Green, Zachary G. Ives
ICIA
2007
14 years 6 days ago
When Is Assistance Really Helpful?
We regularly operate under the notion that one agent assists another when the first does something for the second. However, the story behind this is much more complicated. In thi...
Wayne Iba
ESORICS
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Optimistic Fair Exchange with Multiple Arbiters
Fair exchange is one of the most fundamental problems in secure distributed computation. Alice has something that Bob wants, and Bob has something that Alice wants. A fair exchang...
Alptekin Küpçü, Anna Lysyanskaya
SUTC
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Power-aware Node Deployment in Wireless Sensor Networks
Sensor networks have attracted intensive interests due to its extendable capability. In this paper, we attempt to answer a fundamental but practical question:” how should we dep...
Yunhuai Liu, Hoilun Ngan, Lionel M. Ni
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Information shared by many objects
If Kolmogorov complexity [25] measures information in one object and Information Distance [4, 23, 24, 42] measures information shared by two objects, how do we measure information...
Chong Long, Xiaoyan Zhu, Ming Li, Bin Ma