Privacy preserving data processing has become an important topic recently because of advances in hardware technology which have lead to widespread proliferation of demographic and...
—Survivability modeling and evaluation have gained increasing importance. Most existing models assume that the distributions for transitions between states are exponential. Howev...
There is growing public concern about personal data collected by both private and public sectors. People have very little control over what kinds of data are stored and how such da...
Distributed computation systems have become an important tool for scientific simulation, and a similarly distributed replica management system may be employed to increase the loc...
In this paper we propose a fundamental approach to perform the class of Nearest Neighbor (NN) queries, the core class of queries used in many of the location-based services, withou...