Query reformulation has been suggested as an effective way to improve retrieval efficiency in text information retrieval and one of the well-known techniques for query reformulati...
The preservation of digital artifacts represents an unanswered challenge for the modern information society: XML and its query languages provide an effective environment to addre...
We study the problem of auditing databases which support statistical sum queries to protect the security of sensitive information; we focus on the special case in which the sensit...
Jon M. Kleinberg, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Prabh...
We examine a computational geometric problem concerning the structure of polymers. We model a polymer as a polygonal chain in three dimensions. Each edge splits the polymer into t...
Structured P2P systems based on distributed hash tables are a popular choice for building large-scaled data management systems. Generally, they only support exact match queries, b...