The World Wide Web is now providing hundreds of powerful search facilities, often for free, enabling people to access an enormous amount of information. The most successful search...
This paper explores the use of social annotations to improve web search. Nowadays, many services, e.g. del.icio.us, have been developed for web users to organize and share their f...
The problem of finding a local minimum of a black-box function is central for understanding local search as well as quantum adiabatic algorithms. For functions on the Boolean hype...
Maritime search and rescue operations are critical missions involving personnel, boats, helicopter, aircrafts in a struggle against time often worsened by adversary sea and weather...
Salvatore Aronica, Francesco Benvegna, Massimo Cos...
This paper presents an efficient protocol for securely computing the fundamental problem of pattern matching. This problem is defined in the two-party setting, where party P1 hold...
Rosario Gennaro, Carmit Hazay, Jeffrey S. Sorensen