Suffix trees and suffix arrays are widely used and largely interchangeable index structures on strings and sequences. Practitioners prefer suffix arrays due to their simplicity an...
This paper describes a new public-key cryptosystem where the ciphertext is obtained by multiplying the public-keys indexed by the message bits and the cleartext is recovered by fac...
``Virtual'' is a potent buzzword, freely applied to many situations, with many meanings. In this exploratory study, we develop a more precise understanding of ``virtual...
Mary Beth Watson-Manheim, Katherine M. Chudoba, Ke...
All information exchange on the Internet ? whether through full text, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, or other mechanisms ? ultimately requires that that an information provi...
We study efficient query processing in distributed web search engines with global index organization. The main performance bottleneck in this case is due to the large amount of i...