: Statistics that accurately describe the distribution of data values in the columns of relational tables are essential for effective query optimization in a database management sy...
Alexander Behm, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Kesha...
Trust and its role in e-commerce is a major topic for researchers, clients, and service providers alike. However, questions of origin and practical usage of trust in e-commerce ar...
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Thomas Locher, Remo Meier, Roger Wattenhofer, Stef...
— Many applications that make use of sensor networks require secure communication. Because asymmetric-key solutions are difficult to implement in such a resource-constrained env...
Patrick Traynor, Heesook Choi, Guohong Cao, Sencun...
Recent research has identified significant vulnerabilities in recommender systems. Shilling attacks, in which attackers introduce biased ratings in order to influence future recom...
Sheng Zhang, Amit Chakrabarti, James Ford, Fillia ...