Users often need to optimize the selection of objects by appropriately weighting the importance of multiple object attributes. Such optimization problems appear often in operation...
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As more sensitive data is captured in electronic form, security becomes more and more important. Data encryption is the main technique for achieving security. While in the past en...
Abstract-Unstructured text represents a large fraction of the world's data. It often contain snippets of structured information within them (e.g., people's names and zip ...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Eirinaios Michelakis, Joseph M. He...
Building highly available enterprise applications using web-oriented middleware is hard. Runtime implementations frequently do not address the problems of application state persis...
Roger S. Barga, David B. Lomet, Stelios Paparizos,...
Joins are essential for many data analysis tasks, but are not supported directly by the MapReduce paradigm. While there has been progress on equi-joins, implementation of join alg...