Abstract –In this paper, a new problem, consensus estimation, is formulated, whose setting is complementary to the well-known CEO problem. In particular, a set of nodes are emplo...
The growing use of mobile code in downloaded applications and servlets has increased interest in robust mechanisms for ensuring privacy and secrecy. Information flow control is in...
Abstract. We present in this paper a new model for representing probabilistic information in a semi-structured (XML) database, based on the use of probabilistic event variables. Th...
Recent research has demonstrated the strong performance of hidden Markov models applied to information extraction--the task of populating database slots with corresponding phrases...
The creation of a generic and modular query optimization and processing infrastructure can provide significant benefits to XML data management. Key pieces of such an infrastructur...
Haris Georgiadis, Minas Charalambides, Vasilis Vas...