The idea of using user preferences to assist with information filtering and with providing the most “relevant” answers to queries has recently received some attention from th...
Distributed Hashtables (DHTs) provide a scalable method of associating file-hashes with a particular location in a distributed network environment. Modifying DHTs directly to suppo...
Abstract. Distributed heterogeneous search environments are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers...
Abstract. We study the “subgraph connectivity” problem for undirected graphs with sublinear vertex update time. In this problem, we can make vertices active or inactive in a gr...
We prove the equivalence of two definitions of non-malleable encryption appearing in the literature— the original one of Dolev, Dwork and Naor and the later one of Bellare, Desa...