Decentralized and unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as Gnutella are attractive for large-scale information retrieval and search systems due to scalability, fault-tolera...
The rapid development of network technologies has made the web a huge information source with its own characteristics. In most cases, traditional database-based technologies are no...
Uncertainty is a key issue in decision analysis and other kinds of applications. Researchers have developed a number of approaches to address computations on uncertain quantities....
One of the key issues in product catalogs is how to efficiently integrate and query large, intricate, heterogeneous catalogs. We propose a framework for building a dynamic catalog...
In this paper we describe Turtle, a peer-to-peer architecture for safe sharing of sensitive data. The truly revolutionary aspect of Turtle rests in its novel way of dealing with t...
Bogdan C. Popescu, Bruno Crispo, Andrew S. Tanenba...