Abstract. We present the first private information retrieval (PIR) scheme which is both, deterministically correct and has poly-logarithmic communication complexity. Our PIR proto...
Multimedia databases deal with storage and retrieval of complex descriptors of image contents, called features. Traditional techniques consider features as “black boxes,” ofte...
Web-based applications with a large variety of users suffer from the inability to satisfy heterogeneous needs. A remedy for the negative effects of the traditional "one-size-...
Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, Stefano Gu...
In this paper we propose a new framework for dynamic distributed query processing based on so-called HyperQueries which are essentially query evaluation sub-plans “sitting behin...
Face-to-face meetings usually encompass several modalities including speech, gesture, handwriting, and person identification. Recognition and integration of each of these modalit...
Ralph Gross, Michael Bett, Hua Yu, Xiaojin Zhu, Yu...