Constraint-based database caching aims at correctly answering SQL query predicates from a local cache database by exploiting constraints that have previously been used in selectin...
In standard text retrieval systems, the documents are gathered and indexed on a single server. In distributed information retrieval (DIR), the documents are held in multiple colle...
Finding the right agents in a large and dynamic network to provide the needed resources in a timely fashion, is a long standing problem. This paper presents a method for informati...
This paper points out the privacy issue in the OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol), namely, the OCSP responder learns confidential information – who sends a message to w...
Networks of sensors arise naturally in many different fields, from industrial applications (e.g., monitoring of environmental parameters in a chemical plant) to surveillance appl...