Spurred on by the eager adoption of XML, the world appears to be on the verge of a revolution in the ease with which information resources from diverse, remote providers can be bro...
This book is aimed at senior undergraduates and graduate students in Engineering, Science, Mathematics, and Computing. It expects familiarity with calculus, probability theory, and...
Emotions are an often overlooked aspect of work since they are not included in formal work models. However, they continue provide critical information as well as be part of a rich...
Topics in the field of Web Information Retrieval (IR) and web search are slowly being introduced at the undergraduate level. In this paper, we show how the curriculum for a new u...
In e-commerce, the protection of user privacy from a server was not considered feasible until the private information retrieval (PIR) problem was stated recently. A PIR protocol a...