It is becoming increasingly important for applications to protect sensitive data. With current techniques, the programmer bears the burden of ensuring that the application’s beh...
We introduce the notion of "non-malleable codes" which relaxes the notion of error-correction and errordetection. Informally, a code is non-malleable if the message cont...
Stefan Dziembowski, Krzysztof Pietrzak, Daniel Wic...
The majority of the work in the area of Markov decision processes has focused on expected values of rewards in the objective function and expected costs in the constraints. Althou...
We present a solution to the general problem of characterizing shadows in scenes involving a uniform polygonal area emitter and a polygonal occluder in arbitrary position by manif...
Michael M. Stark, Elaine Cohen, Tom Lyche, Richard...
: In an extensible database system, evaluation of a query plan is done in cooperation between a collection of operator implementation functions and a component of the DBMS that we ...