A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol allows a database user, or client, to obtain information from a data- base in a manner that prevents the database from knowing which...
—In this paper we present an Information Theoretic Estimator for the number of sources mutually disjoint in a linear mixing model. The approach follows the Minimum Description Le...
Much of human knowledge is organized into sophisticated systems that are often called intuitive theories. We propose that intuitive theories are mentally represented in a logical ...
Push-based data delivery requires knowledge of user interests for making scheduling, bandwidthallocation, and routing decisions. Such information is maintained as user profiles. W...
Today XML is an essential technology for knowledge management within enterprises and dissemination of data over the Web. Therefore the efficient evaluation of XML queries has been ...