Recent years have seen a growing interest in research into patent retrieval. One of the key issues in conducting information retrieval (IR) research is meaningful evaluation of the...
Understanding how people interact with search engines is important in improving search quality. Web search engines typically analyze queries and clicked results, but these actions...
We extend Goldberg’s multi-server information-theoretic private information retrieval (PIR) with a suite of protocols for privacypreserving e-commerce. Our first protocol adds ...
Most of today's structured data is stored in relational databases. Such a database consists of multiple relations which are linked together conceptually via entity-relationsh...
In an attempt to cope with time-varying workload, traditional adaptive Time Warp protocols are designed to react in response to performance changes by altering control parameter c...