Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
The access patterns of the users of a web-site are traditionally analyzed in order to facilitate the user access to the site's information. In this study, however, a systemat...
Amir M. Zarkesh, Jafar Adibi, Cyrus Shahabi, Reza ...
Abstract. Assertion-based contracts provide a powerful mechanism for stating invariants at module boundaries and for enforcing them uniformly. In 2002, Findler and Felleisen showed...
Consider a database that represents the location of moving objects, such as taxi-cabs (typical query: retrieve the cabs that are currently within 1 mile of 33 Michigan Ave., Chica...
Ouri Wolfson, Sam Chamberlain, Son Dao, Liqin Jian...
Administrative RBAC (ARBAC) policies specify how Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) policies may be changed by each administrator. It is often difficult to fully understand the effe...
Scott D. Stoller, Ping Yang, C. R. Ramakrishnan, M...