Information retrieval is an empirical science; the field cannot move forward unless there are means of evaluating the innovations devised by researchers. However the methodologies...
Mark Sanderson, Martin Braschler, Nicola Ferro, Ju...
When describing Web services, one of the obvious aspects that needs representing is Quality of Service” (QoS), the capability of a Web service to meet an acceptable level of ser...
Current social networks implement very simple protection mechanisms, according to which a user can state whether his/her personal data, relationships, and resources should be eith...
Existing approaches for protecting sensitive information stored (outsourced) at external "honest-but-curious" servers are typically based on an overlying layer of encrypt...
Valentina Ciriani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercat...
With Hidden Credentials Alice can send policyencrypted data to Bob in such a way that he can decrypt the data only with the right combination of credentials. Alice gains no knowle...