We study the problem of privacy-preserving access to a database. Particularly, we consider the problem of privacy-preserving keyword search (KS), where records in the database are ...
Michael J. Freedman, Yuval Ishai, Benny Pinkas, Om...
Meaningful evaluation of web search must take account of spam. Here we conduct a user experiment to investigate whether satisfaction with search engine result pages as a whole is ...
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Paul Thomas, Ramesh ...
Existing works in XML keyword search have addressed the problem of finding matching results of a query. However, user input queries always contain irrelevant or mismatched terms, ...
Jiaheng Lu, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Xiaofeng M...
— Location-based services (LBS) have been widely accepted by mobile users. Many LBS users have direction-aware search requirement that answers must be in a search direction. Howe...
Keyword search is a familiar and potentially effective way to find information of interest that is "locked" inside relational databases. Current work has generally assum...
Mayssam Sayyadian, Hieu LeKhac, AnHai Doan, Luis G...