We study the problem of anonymizing user profiles so that user privacy is sufficiently protected while the anonymized profiles are still effective in enabling personalized web sea...
The k-anonymity technique is widely used to provide location privacy protection for accessing location-based services (LBS), i.e., the exact location of a query initiator is cloak...
Outdoor location-based services are now prevalent due to advances in mobile technology and GPS. Indoors, however, even coarse location remains unavailable. Bluetooth has been ident...
This paper presents HomeViews, a peer-to-peer middleware system for building personal data management applications. HomeViews provides abstractions and services for data organizat...
Roxana Geambasu, Magdalena Balazinska, Steven D. G...
Massive amounts of raw data are currently being generated by biologists while sequencing organisms. Outside of the largest, high-pro le projects such as the Human Genome Project, ...