This paper presents a general-purpose distributed lookup service, denoted Passive Distributed Indexing (PDI). PDI stores entries in form of (key, value) pairs in index caches loca...
As critical records are increasingly stored in electronic form, which tends to make for easy destruction and clandestine modification, it is imperative that they be properly manag...
We address the problem of providing privacypreserving search over distributed accesscontrolled content. Indexed documents can be easily reconstructed from conventional (inverted) ...
Mayank Bawa, Rakesh Agrawal, Roberto J. Bayardo Jr...
Query substitution is an important problem in information retrieval. Much work focuses on how to find substitutes for any given query. In this paper, we study how to efficiently ...
— One of the critical issues in search engines is the size of search indexes: as the number of documents handled by an engine increases, the search must preserve its efficiency,...