Short search engine queries do not provide contextual information, making it difficult for traditional search engines to understand what users are really requesting. One approach ...
Ajith Kodakateri Pudhiyaveetil, Susan Gauch, Hiep ...
We give an efficient protocol for sequence comparisons of the edit-distance kind, such that neither party reveals anything about their private sequence to the other party (other t...
Mikhail J. Atallah, Florian Kerschbaum, Wenliang D...
In information system development, end-users often participate in design and in many cases learn to design their own system. Design, however, requires a distinct approach that use...
In an online convex optimization problem a decision-maker makes a sequence of decisions, i.e., chooses a sequence of points in Euclidean space, from a fixed feasible set. After ea...
Database queries can be broadly classified into two categories: reporting queries and aggregation queries. The former retrieves a collection of records from the database that mat...