Abstract—This paper investigates pricing of Internet connectivity services in the context of a monopoly ISP selling broadband access to consumers. We first study the optimal com...
Prashanth Hande, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderbank...
An important class of queries is the LIKE predicate in SQL. In the absence of an index, LIKE queries are subject to performance degradation. The notion of indexing on substrings (...
In relational database systems a combination of privileges and views is employed to limit a user’s access and to hide non-public data. The data privacy problem is to decide wheth...
A form-based query interface is usually the preferred means to provide an unsophisticated user access to a database. Not only is such an interface easy to use, requiring no techni...
Many applications of spoken-language systems can benefit from having access to annotations of prosodic events. Unfortunately, obtaining human annotations of these events, even se...