The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...
Abstract. Provable security is a very nice property for cryptographic protocols. Unfortunately, in many cases, this is at the cost of a considerable loss in terms of efficiency. Mo...
The technique of control variates requires that the user identify a set of variates that are correlated with the estimation variable and whose means are known to the user. We rela...
As financial markets are volatile and rapidly changing, preciseness and agility in price evaluation and risk assessment in the portfolios are more important and decision support s...
Abstract--With the proliferation of internet-based social networks into our lives, new mechanisms to control the release and use of personal data are required. As a step toward thi...