Abstract. Collaborative search engines (CSE) let users pool their resources and share their experiences when seeking information on the web. However, when shared, search terms and ...
Personalised social search is a promising avenue to increase the relevance of search engine results by making use of recommendations made by friends in a social network. More gener...
George Danezis, Tuomas Aura, Shuo Chen, Emre Kicim...
Many activities on the web are driven by high-level goals of users, such as “plan a trip” or “buy some product”. In this paper, we are interested in exploring the role and ...
Markus Strohmaier, Mathias Lux, Michael Granitzer,...
As the search engine arms-race continues, search engines are constantly looking for ways to improve the manner in which they respond to user queries. Given the vagueness of Web sea...
Jill Freyne, Barry Smyth, Maurice Coyle, Evelyn Ba...
This paper investigates the general problem of performing key-value search at untrusted servers without loss of user privacy. Specifically, given key-value pairs from multiple ow...
Yinglian Xie, Michael K. Reiter, David R. O'Hallar...