Software systems should consist of simple, conceptually clean software components interacting along narrow, well-defined paths. All too often, this is not reality: complex compon...
Information and Access Technology Services at the University of Missouri-Columbia has long struggled with its physical location on the edge of campus. In my 20+ years of experienc...
Private information retrieval (PIR) enables a user to retrieve a data item from a database, replicated among one or more servers, while hiding the identity of the retrieved item. ...
Traceability schemes allow detection of at least one traitor when a group of colluders attempt to construct a pirate decoder and gain illegal access to digital content. Fiat and Ta...
Database systems support recovery, providing high database availability. However, database applications may lose work because of a server failure. In particular, if a database serv...
Roger S. Barga, David B. Lomet, Thomas Baby, Sanja...