Controlled Query Evaluation (CQE) defines a logical framework to protect confidential information in a database. By modeling a user's a priori knowledge appropriately, a CQE ...
We present a theoretically founded framework for fuzzy unification and resolution based on edit distance over trees. Our framework extends classical unification and resolution con...
Prior research into search system scalability has primarily addressed query processing efficiency [1, 2, 3] or indexing efficiency [3], or has presented some arbitrary system arch...
This paper describes an evaluation of the two technologies Aglets from IBM Japan and JavaSpaces from Sun Microsystems used to implement the same mobile agent system. The Aglets fr...
Research community on distributed systems, and in particular on peer-to-peer systems, needs tools for evaluating their own protocols and services, as well as against other protoco...