Processing of top-k queries has been attracting considerable attention. Much of the work assumes distributed data, with each site holding a different set of attributes for the sam...
Many existing privacy-preserving techniques for querying distributed databases of sensitive information do not scale for large databases due to the use of heavyweight cryptographi...
Sherman S. M. Chow, Jie-Han Lee, Lakshminarayanan ...
Research in the areas of privacy preserving techniques in databases and subsequently in privacy enhancement technologies have witnessed an explosive growth-spurt in recent years. ...
A “friend finder” is a Location Based Service (LBS) that informs users about the presence of participants in a geographical area. In particular, one of the functionalities of ...
Opportunistic sensing allows applications to "task" mobile devices to measure context in a target region. For example, one could leverage sensorequipped vehicles to measu...