The number of scientific publications is constantly increasing, and the results published on Empirical Software Engineering are growing even faster. Some software engineering publ...
Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili, Forrest Shull, M...
Data outsourcing or database as a service is a new paradigm for data management in which a third party service provider hosts a database as a service. The service provides data man...
Ahmed Metwally, Amr El Abbadi, Divyakant Agrawal, ...
Abstract--Releasing person-specific data could potentially reveal sensitive information of individuals. k-anonymization is a promising privacy protection mechanism in data publishi...
Benjamin C. M. Fung, Ke Wang, Lingyu Wang, Mourad ...
With the proliferation of mobile devices (e.g., PDAs, cell phones, etc.), location-based services have become more and more popular in recent years. However, users have to reveal ...
Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Wen-Chih Peng, Sus...
P2P systems are increasingly used for efficient, scalable data sharing. Popular applications focus on massive file sharing. However, advanced applications such as online communiti...
Mohamed Jawad, Patricia Serrano-Alvarado, Patrick ...