The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...
Initial software quality requirements tend to be imprecise, subjective, idealistic, and context-specific. An extended characterization of the common Softgoal concept is proposed fo...
Frequent elements and top-k queries constitute an important class of queries for data stream analysis applications. Certain applications require answers for both frequent elements...
In an authorship verification problem one is given writing examples from an author A, and one is asked to determine whether or not each text in fact was written by A. In a more ge...
Adaptive security, while more realistic as an adversarial model, is typically much harder to achieve compared to static security in cryptographic protocol design. Universal composi...