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,...
Option contracts are a type of financial derivative that allow investors to hedge risk and speculate on the variation of an asset’s future market price. In short, an option has...
Jacob Abernethy, Rafael M. Frongillo, Andre Wibiso...
The conversion of a legacy system to a system based on a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) package demands a dedicated guidance. The assumption that it is just a matter of adopting ...
ded abstract of this work will appear in Public Key Cryptography — PKC 2012. This is the full version. We propose a general framework that converts (ordinary) signature schemes ...
In this work, we propose an original method of resolution of the shape from shading problem, which is accurate and converges with a few iterations. It relies on two simple ideas. ...