The frequency and severity of a number of recent intrusions involving data theft and leakages has shown that online users’ trust, voluntary or not, in the ability of third partie...
An important requirement for emerging applications which aim to locate and integrate content distributed over the Web is to identify pages that are relevant for a given domain or ...
Skyline computation has many applications including multi-criteria decision making. In this paper, we study the problem of selecting k skyline points so that the number of points,...
Structured P2P systems in the form of distributed hash tables (DHT) are a promising approach for building massively distributed data management platforms. However, for many applic...
Web search logs contain extremely sensitive data, as evidenced by the recent AOL incident. However, storing and analyzing search logs can be very useful for many purposes (i.e. in...