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  Parallel computation
Akl S., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997.  Type: Book (9780131470347)

Parallelism remains both an intellectual challenge and a useful commodity in computer system design. With widespread access to personal computers, the topic of parallel computing as a whole, and parallel algorithms in particular, is no...
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Apr 1 1998  
  Parallel computational geometry
Akl S., Lyons K., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1993.  Type: Book (9780136520177)

According to the preface, “the book is addressed to graduate students in computer science, engineering and mathematics, as well as to practitioners and researchers in these disciplines.” This slim volume might be to...
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Feb 1 1995  
  The design and analysis of parallel algorithms
Akl S., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1989.  Type: Book (9789780132000567)

This book is organized as a text for use at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level (to follow an undergraduate course on design and analysis of algorithms). It is well suited to this purpose with clear descriptions of algorithms ...
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Feb 1 1990  
  Views for multilevel database security
Denning D., Akl S., Heckman M., Lunt T., Morgenstern M., Neumann P., Schell R. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering SE-13(2): 129-140, 1987.  Type: Article

This paper describes a relational database model for the provision of a multilevel database security system based on views. Views have been recognized as a mechanism for providing security since the introduction of the CODASYL DBTG Rep...
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Feb 1 1988  
  An optimal algorithm for assigning cryptographic keys to control access in a hierarchy
MacKinnon S., Taylor P., Meijer H., Akl S. IEEE Transactions on Computers 34(9): 797-802, 1985.  Type: Article

I did not like this paper. On first reading, it was difficult to understand. When I reread it, I realized it was a matter of style; the authors never told you where they were going. The Abstract implies much, but if you haven’...
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May 1 1987  

 
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