In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...
Automotive traffic monitoring using probe vehicles with Global Positioning System receivers promises significant improvements in cost, coverage, and accuracy. Current approaches, ...
Baik Hoh, Marco Gruteser, Ryan Herring, Jeff Ban, ...
Private retrieval of public data is useful when a client wants to query a public data service without revealing the specific query data to the server. Computational Private Informa...
A transitive signature scheme allows to sign a graph in such a way that, given the signatures of edges (a, b) and (b, c), it is possible to compute the signature for the edge (or ...
Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...