Private approximation of search problems deals with finding approximate solutions to search problems while disclosing as little information as possible. The focus of this work is ...
Query logs record the queries and the actions of the users of search engines, and as such they contain valuable information about the interests, the preferences, and the behavior ...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, De...
The gap between the user's information need and query is expanding due to the pervasiveness of Web search. Multimedia question answering is restricted by disjoint infrastruct...
Self-Organized Networks (SONs) are a general description of autonomous networks without infrastructure, of which Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh networks are special cases. We had previou...
Julien Ridoux, Meriem Kassar, Mathias Boc, Anne Fl...
In this paper, we propose a unified framework, called Markov Model Mediator (MMM), to facilitate image database clustering and to improve the query performance. The structure of t...
Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui ...