The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
The work reported here lays the foundations of data exchange in the presence of probabilistic data. This requires rethinking the very basic concepts of traditional data exchange, ...
ing Abstraction to Improve Fault Tolerance MIGUEL CASTRO Microsoft Research and RODRIGO RODRIGUES and BARBARA LISKOV MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Software errors are a major...
Numerous systems have been designed which use virtualization to subdivide the ample resources of a modern computer. Some require specialized hardware, or cannot support commodity ...
Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven H...
—Managing access control policies is a complex task. We argue that much of the complexity is unnecessary and mostly due to historical reasons. There are number of legacy policy s...