Traditional location-based services recommend nearest objects to the user by considering their spatial proximity. However, an object not only has its distance but also has its dir...
—Monitoring personal locations with a potentially untrusted server poses privacy threats to the monitored individuals. To this end, we propose a privacy-preserving location monit...
This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a replication scheme to handle Byzantine faults in transaction processing database systems. The scheme compares ...
Ben Vandiver, Hari Balakrishnan, Barbara Liskov, S...
Most computer science educators hold strong opinions about the “right” approach to teaching introductory level programming. Unfortunately, we have comparatively little hard ev...
Jaime Spacco, Jaymie Strecker, David Hovemeyer, Wi...
To answer user queries, a data integration system employs a set of semantic mappings between the mediated schema and the schemas of data sources. In dynamic environments sources o...
Robert McCann, Bedoor K. AlShebli, Quoc Le, Hoa Ng...