The PCP theorem [3, 2] says that every language in NP has a witness format that can be checked probabilistically by reading only a constant number of bits from the proof. The cele...
This paper provides the first explicit construction of extractors which are simultaneously optimal up to constant factors in both seed length and output length. More precisely, fo...
Chi-Jen Lu, Omer Reingold, Salil P. Vadhan, Avi Wi...
Computers are notoriously insecure, in part because application security policies do not map well onto traditional protection mechanisms such as Unix user accounts or hardware pag...
Nickolai Zeldovich, Hari Kannan, Michael Dalton, C...
Snapshot isolation (SI) provides significantly improved concurrency over 2PL, allowing reads to be non-blocking. Unfortunately, it can also lead to non-serializable executions in ...
Sudhir Jorwekar, Alan Fekete, Krithi Ramamritham, ...
This report is part of the seminar Digital Information Curation held by Prof. Dr. Marc H. Scholl and Dr. Andr?e Seifert during the winter term 2005/06. Its intention is to summari...
Peter Buneman, Sanjeev Khanna, Keishi Tajima, Wang...