Data confidentiality is a major concern in database systems. Encryption is a useful tool for protecting the confidentiality of sensitive data. However, when data is encrypted, perf...
The need for controlled sharing of sensitive information occurs in many realistic everyday scenarios, ranging from critical (e.g., national security) to mundane (e.g., social netw...
Data integration has been a long standing challenge to the database and data mining communities. This need has become critical in numerous contexts, including building e-commerce ...
Sourav S. Bhowmick, Le Gruenwald, Mizuho Iwaihara,...
In an on-line statistical database, the query-answering system should prevent answers to statistical queries from leading to disclosure of confidential data. On the other hand, a s...
We propose a protocol for a local search and a genetic algorithm for the distributed traveling salesman problem (TSP). In the distributed TSP, information regarding the cost funct...