Although the privacy threats and countermeasures associated with location data are well known, there has not been a thorough experiment to assess the effectiveness of either. We ex...
With the increasing popularity of location-based services, such as tour guide and location-based social network, we now have accumulated many location data on the Web. In this pap...
Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Qiang Y...
The semantic Web and Web service technologies have provided both new possibilities and challenges to automatic information processing. There are a lot of researches on applying th...
Local search is a specialization of the web search that allows users to submit geographically constrained queries. However, one of the challenges for local search engines is to un...
We present in this paper a new network storage channel WebShare that uses the plentiful, public Web counters for storage. Therefore, the physical locations of the WebShare encoder ...