One of the main challenges faced by content-based publish/subscribe systems is handling large amount of dynamic subscriptions and publications in a multidimensional content space....
In this paper, we propose a new efficient and secure micro-payment scheme, named e-coupons, which can provide the users the facility of delegating their spending capability to oth...
This paper examines the effectiveness of joint decision making within 87 pairs of buyer-supplier relationships in manufacturing. Joint decision making is an important attribute of ...
Many applications depend on efficient management of large sets of distinct strings in memory. For example, during index construction for text databases a record is held for each d...
We present a method for efficiently performing deletions and updates of records when the records to be deleted or updated are chosen by a range scan on an index. The traditional m...