Current Web services standards enable publishing service descriptions and finding services on a match based on criteria such as method signatures or service category. However, cur...
SIGMOD 2008 was the first database conference that offered to test submitters' programs against their data to verify the experiments published. This paper discusses the ratio...
Ioana Manolescu, Loredana Afanasiev, Andrei Arion,...
It is often highly valuable for organizations to have their data analyzed by external agents. However, any program that computes on potentially sensitive data risks leaking inform...
Protection of users’ privacy has been a central issue for location-based services (LBSs). In this paper, we classify two kinds of privacy protection requirements in LBS: location...
The contingency table is a work horse of official statistics, the format of reported data for the US Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Internal Revenue Service. In many ...