Consider a database most of whose entries are marked but the precise fraction of marked entries is not known. What is known is that the fraction of marked entries is 1 − , where ...
In this paper we consider the di culty of factoring multivariate polynomials F(x y z :::) modulo n. We consider in particular the case in which F is a product of two randomly chose...
This paper reports on the design and implementation of FLORA -- a powerful DOOD system that incorporates the features of F-logic, HiLog, and Transaction Logic. FLORA is implemented...
The lack of a large scale Chinese test collection is an obstacle to the Chinese information retrieval development. In order to address this issue, we built such a collection compos...
Except for trivial cases, any accessibility evaluation has to be based on some method for selecting pages to be analyzed. But this selection process may bias the evaluation. Up to...