In this paper we present a prefetch technique, which incorporates a scheme similar to data streaming to minimize the response-lag. Unlike previous all or none techniques, we propo...
Given a set of categories, with or without a preexisting hierarchy among them, we consider the problem of assigning documents to one or more of these categories from the point of ...
Stephen D'Alessio, Keitha A. Murray, Robert Schiaf...
We present a new general upper bound on the number of examples required to estimate all of the expectations of a set of random variables uniformly well. The quality of the estimat...
Performance evaluation of applications running on a Grid is a challenging task. Grid's resources are heterogeneous in nature, often shared, and dynamic, all of which have imp...
Abstract Privacy has become a factor of increasing importance in auction design. We propose general techniques for cryptographic first-price and (M + 1)st-price auction protocols t...