Sources of data uncertainty and imprecision are numerous. A way to handle this uncertainty is to associate probabilistic annotations to data. Many such probabilistic database mode...
The database tier of dynamic content servers at large Internet sites is typically hosted on centralized and expensive hardware. Recently, research prototypes have proposed using d...
NAND flash-based solid state drives have emerged as revolutionary storage media during recent years. However, the wide-spread of SSD technology is currently obstructed by the fac...
Data privacy laws have appeared recently, such as the HIPAA laws for protecting medical records, and the PCI guidelines for protecting Credit Card information. Data privacy can be...
This paper proposes a fast AND/OR tree search algorithm using a multiple-paths concurrent search method. Conventional heuristic AND/OR tree search algorithms expand nodes in only ...