The number of successful attacks on the Internet shows that it is very difficult to guarantee the security of online search engines. A breached server that is not detected in time...
We study the problem of efficiently computing diverse query results in online shopping applications, where users specify queries through a form interface that allows a mix of stru...
Erik Vee, Utkarsh Srivastava, Jayavel Shanmugasund...
In a number of application areas, distributed database systems can be used to provide persistent storage of data while providing efficient access for both local and remote data. W...
This paper provides a technique, based on partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), for building automatic recovery controllers to guide distributed system recovery...
Kaustubh R. Joshi, William H. Sanders, Matti A. Hi...
— Multi-criteria decision support (MCDS) is crucial in many business and web applications such as web searches, B2B portals and on-line commerce. Such MCDS applications need to r...