The join operation, which combines tuples from multiple relations, is the most fundamental and, typically, the most expensive operation in database queries. The standard approach t...
Benjamin J. McMahan, Guoqiang Pan, Patrick Porter,...
This paper presents a framework for understanding and constructing access methods for versioned data. Records are associated with version ranges in a version tree. A minimal repre...
Betty Salzberg, Linan Jiang, David B. Lomet, Manue...
Over the course of a day a human interacts with tens or hundreds of individual objects. Many of these articles are nomadic, relying on human memory to manually index, inventory, o...
Aditya Nemmaluri, Mark D. Corner, Prashant J. Shen...
The search of efficient constructions of ideal secret sharing schemes for families of nonthreshold access structures that may have useful applications has attracted a lot of atten...
When online ads are shown together, they compete for user attention and conversions, imposing negative externalities on each other. While the competition for user attention in spo...